Re: [Discussion] Windows support

Thank you all for your insights! I will create the new thread to kick off the formal voting process for removing windows support starting from 4.0. Regards, Yuki On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 10:42 AM Erick Ramirez wrote: > > > > > My point is, for educational purposes there are plenty of other ways

Re: [Discussion] Windows support

> > My point is, for educational purposes there are plenty of other ways of > running small dev clusters that are probably more realistic for most uses > cases. > I’d be for removing windows support, but I suspect my use case is one of > the more minor ones. > Not minor at all. Thanks for that

Re: [Discussion] Windows support

> On Jul 30, 2020, at 8:08 AM, Andrew Cobley (Staff) > wrote: > > Apologies, I have not been involved in this process for a few years, but I > saw this topic pass by and thought I would like to comment. > > I’m a lecturer in computer science and used C* in a couple of dev classes, >

Re: [Discussion] Windows support

> I agree, let's remove it. We've had a history of "windows champions" > (oh, hi Josh) and I don't see a clear one here, nor do I think that's > a good methodology to promote in the long term (and history shows > this, too.) Clearly, 90+% of C* actual usage is on a unix-like > system, so this is

Re: [Discussion] Windows support

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 9:57 AM Joshua McKenzie wrote: > > > > > I think that not supporting Windows for local dev environments would make > > it harder for developers to get started with Apache Cassandra > > > I was the one that got Windows fully supported in 2014/2015 for context. > > I say we

Re: [Discussion] Windows support

2020 at 15:56 To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: [Discussion] Windows support > > I think that not supporting Windows for local dev environments would make > it harder for developers to get started with Apache Cassandra > I was the one that got Windows fully supported

Re: [Discussion] Windows support

> > I think that not supporting Windows for local dev environments would make > it harder for developers to get started with Apache Cassandra > I was the one that got Windows fully supported in 2014/2015 for context. I say we pull support out. The way NTFS treats hard links (i.e. inability to

Re: [Discussion] Windows support

Personally I still use CCM on windows pretty often and the C# driver even has an appveyor job that runs tests with CCM on windows (the drivers smoke tests job does this as well). Setting up clusters with multiple nodes is not that easy with Docker and WSL 2 because the nodes run inside a VM. In

Re: [Discussion] Windows support

Hey Yuki, Having just come off CASSANDRA-15861 , where having to take Windows into account certainly complicated things, I'd be in favor of removing Windows support as soon as possible. Another thing that comes to mind is DataStax Desktop:

Re: [Discussion] Windows support

I pushed for Windows support 5+ years ago but I just use WSL now. (WSL2 makes it easier for Docker but it's not required.) On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 8:41 PM Yuki Morishita wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to raise my concern about Windows support, as we are getting > closer to 4.0 release. > > Since

[Discussion] Windows support

Hi, I'd like to raise my concern about Windows support, as we are getting closer to 4.0 release. Since the support for JDK11 (CASSANDRA-9608), Windows script to start Cassandra is broken. The fix for the script is posted to