On 09/09/2010 14:28, Gorissen D. wrote:
The restriction is mainly because we found the problem very late in testing and decided to push ahead with getting a release available rather than holding off while I hunted down the issue[*]. It's probably something very silly like directory separator characters. I don't know if things will work nicely (after the obvious issues are addressed) when running something like Tomcat as a Windows Service. That's because services run with quite different environments to users.So should I take this as advice that in general there will be no guarantees that Taverna Server will work reliably on Windows (I assume the client will always work)? Unless there is somebody with a real windows need who can step up and maintain things I guess.
Well, it's really a matter of fixing the bug so that it works at all. I've got a good idea what's causing it (a bunch of bad assumptions on my part). There's also the Windows Service stuff, which I know I'm more ignorant about, but which is also a bit less critical; it does not need to be fixed in order to run workflows on Windows, but only to make things feel like other services. (It might also end up as being not a problem at all.)
Just to be clear, if that is the case, thats fine, I have been a happy *nix user for a long time and I can relate :). However, since our project does involve windows only tools I will have to take a closer look at workarounds or alternative engines.
Basically, I couldn't work on fixing it this week because I had a multi-day meeting (out in the wilds of Surrey) to go to instead. :-( But next week, I'll have time to fix. You can track the issue by going to: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/dev/issues/browse/TAVSERV-110 I don't know yet whether to roll the fix out as a separate branch or as part of the next general release (which has quite a few other things too). I've just not had any time to ask everyone about strategy here. :-) Donal.
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