Like others, I would also support any effort to make the platform more portable as long as it didn't detract from the existing OS support. Do keep in mind, however, that Bigtop will struggle to support ZooKeeper (or any other component) on Windows if there isn't matching support upstream. It's possible my experience is unique or outdated, but I had a few team members try to develop against ZooKeeper on Windows and eventually they gave up and switched to Linux. From ZooKeeper's official documentation: "Win32 is supported as a *development platform* only for both server and client." Perhaps the support for Windows is better than I'm thinking, but my point is just that you'll quite possibly need to work with ZooKeeper upstream as well to make it a smooth experience.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:40PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > > I understand. > > > > Windows isn't my favorite platform, it just bugs me when I want to use a > > neat tool, and the community for the tool doesn't prioritize porting it > to > > the particular platform I'm using that day. > > Sorry to hear that - looks like this particular day is pretty painful, > ain't > it? ;) > > > On a bad day, I'm trying to develop an app with one part of the build > > system Linux only, one part Windows only, a dash of Mac-only for flavor. > > I guess most of us have a luxury of working for unix companies, hence we > don't > need to deal with you-know-what. But I would be a very last guy to oppose > adding new platforms to the support list, as far as there's a designated > contributor working on it. Otherwise, code tends to bit-rot, etc. > > Cos > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > [moving user@ to bcc, sending to dev@] > > > > > > Sure thing - if there's somebody to fully support the platform. > > > > > > I don't think there are resources nor ability in the community to do > it. > > > E.g. > > > last time I've touched a windows computer was about 10 years ago and > > > hopefully > > > I won't touch it again in the next 20 ;) > > > > > > Cos > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:28PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > > > > I would like to automate setting up Zookeeper and friends in Windows. > > > Would > > > > BigTop consider adding support for Windows? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Andrew Pennebaker > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > > > Andrew Pennebaker > > [email protected] >
