On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Salabhanjika S <[email protected]> wrote: >> afaik there is no reason it should work on windows. > > Patrick, I got more confused by your statement. Did you mean "no reason it > should *NOT* to work on Windows"? I will be very happy if that is what you > meant.
Oops, sorry about that. I meant to write "no reason it shouldn't work". afaik the java server/client should work. As mentioned previously in the thread the C client may not at the moment but in general some folks have had success in the past. (this is what I was trying to get at before wrt the scope of use and feedback on windows has been limited) Patrick > I can say at least 3 of my clients (past & current) asked for Windows > support. Though I don't see a reason for *NOT TO WORK* on Windows, I could > not confidently convince them due to official (read conservative as Pat > mentioned) limitation in documentation (Admin guide). > > I agree on our concerns w.r.to community usage and support. > IMHO, we should remove this limitation (in worst case for Server and Java > based Clients) immediately from Admin guide and work on issues w.r.to other > clients. > > Just for information only. > Hortonworks claims they will be supporting(in NEAR future release) > distribution on Windows as well. > http://hortonworks.com/products/hdp-windows/ > > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is us being our typical conservative selves. ;-) afaik there is >> no reason it should work on windows. I think our main concern has been >> having folks actually using it on windows and reporting back good >> experiences (any windows reports at all have been limited so far) and >> also having enough community members interested in windows such that >> when an issue does come up there will be someone >> willing/interested/able to resolve the issue. >> >> Patrick >> >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Rakesh R <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Salabhanjika, >> > >> > I've used zk client(java) in windows platform during development phase. >> I personally feel, java server and java clients would work well in windows >> environment and there will not be much issues. But truly speaking I haven't >> tested thoroughly (java)zk server in windows platform. Adding one more, >> recently few efforts has been taken to stabilize Jenkins(Windows) and is in >> progress. I think this will give more confidence to all. >> > >> > https://builds.apache.org/job/ZooKeeper-3.4-WinVS2008_java/ >> > https://builds.apache.org/job/ZooKeeper-trunk-WinVS2008_java >> > >> > -Rakesh >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Salabhanjika S [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: 07 January 2014 23:51 >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: Windows support (Win-64) >> > >> > Seems I'm not the first one to be misguided by documentation. >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1635 >> > >> > Added a comment in this issue too. >> > >> > I interpret above jira as, C Client issue for Win-64 alone. If that is >> the case, should it more clear from documentation (admin guide). >> > >> > - Windows (win32 & win64) is supported as a *development and production >> > platform* for both server and client (java client only). ZK-1635 >> reference can be provided here. >> > >> > Rationale behind this proposal is to bring more confidence to ZooKeeper >> users on Windows. >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Salabhanjika S <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> > >> >> Does ZooKeeper is supported on Windows (Win-64). When I searched >> >> through the mailing list, I found >> >> http://search-hadoop.com/m/pyVQoOgNQc/windows&subj=ZooKeeper+on+Window >> >> s >> >> >> >> >> >> As per this discussion, there is no restriction/limitation as such. >> >> But documentations claims "development only" support on Windows(Win-32). >> >> >> >> >> >> http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_supported >> >> Platforms >> >> >> >> >> >> Should this be a documentation fix? >> >> >>
