RE: Win32 as a production platform

2009-06-04 Thread Marc Frei
Dear Mahadev, dear Patrick, thank you very much for the quick replies. Given your encouraging answers we will carry on with our project both on Linux and Windows. Of course, we will be more than happy to contribute back any experiences with Win32 as a production platform provided that our

Re: Win32 as a production platform

2009-06-04 Thread Patrick Hunt
Agree. I developed on a windows box for about 9months w/o any windows specific issues being found. If someone were willing to do the work and take on responsibility for long term dev/test/support I don't see why we wouldn't add it. Patrick ps - notice that the dev level use of windows current

Re: Win32 as a production platform

2009-06-04 Thread Mahadev Konar
Hi Marc, The only thing missing would be testing and support. We do most of our testing on linux boxes and for the same reason its easy for us to support the platforms that we use. We do not have access to windows boxes to test and (therefore) support windows as a suggested production platform. Al

Win32 as a production platform

2009-06-04 Thread Marc Frei
Dear ZooKeeper users, the ZooKeeper Administrator's Guide states that Win32 is currently only supported as a development platform but not as production platform: http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.1.1/zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_su pportedPlatforms Since we are currently evaluating ZooKeeper