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Max Michels commented on FLINK-1406:
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Right, Flink runs on Windows and can be used to develop Flink programs.
Developers of Flink itself, however, are currently required to run a Unix
environment like Linux, Mac OS X, or Cygwin. The documentation should also make
this distinction, i.e. we should list Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows in the API
documentation and Unix like environments in the "How to contribute" guide.
> Windows compatibility
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> Key: FLINK-1406
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1406
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Max Michels
> Priority: Minor
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> The documentation [1] states: "Flink runs on all UNIX-like environments:
> Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin. The only requirement is to have a working Java 6.x
> (or higher) installation."
> I just found out Flink runs also natively on Windows. Do we want to support
> Windows? If so, we should update the documentation. Clearly, we don't support
> it at the moment for development. At multiple places, the tests contain
> references to "/tmp" or "/dev/random/" which are not Windows compatible.
> Probably it's enough to update the documentation stating that Flink runs on
> Windows but cannot be build or developed on Windows without Cygwin.
> [1] http://flink.apache.org/docs/0.7-incubating/setup_quickstart.html
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