Back from long vacation today. I'll take a look at windows build/test failures.

Also, how about having a parent JIRA to have all outstanding issues on
Windows as sub-tasks of it?


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:25 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ah, no, I think that's just ZookeeperNet which I'm already using (but I have 
> the issues forcing session expiry as I mentioned in another mail). Apart from 
> that issue it seems really solid though, so I'll probably stick with that for 
> now.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Young, Ben
> Sent: 16 January 2014 08:53
> To: UserZooKeeper
> Subject: RE: Windows support (Win-64)
>
> I haven't! I'll take a look, thanks.
>
> Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Hunt [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 15 January 2014 19:41
> To: UserZooKeeper
> Subject: Re: Windows support (Win-64)
>
> You've seen Sharpkeeper?
> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ZooKeeper/ZKClientBindings
> http://zookeeper-user.578899.n2.nabble.com/Info-How-to-build-Sharpkeeper-td6539672.html
>
> Patrick
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:44 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Will do! We're interested in using it from .NET, but the primary point
>> is to get the server supported, and then we can choose our method of
>> access from .NET (e.g. wrap the C client or use the ZookeeperNet
>> package etc)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patrick Hunt [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: 10 January 2014 21:11
>> To: UserZooKeeper
>> Subject: Re: Windows support (Win-64)
>>
>> Just back from vacation and didn't notice a number of folks are looking at 
>> this:
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1833
>>
>> Kudos!
>>
>> Ben feel free to jump in and participate.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Patrick Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Ben, if you were interested to help drive windows support that
>>> would be great. I'd be happy to help support. Note that Michi has
>>> been doing work on this already, you probably have seen that on the
>>> ML archive and the JIRA. I suggest you look there if you want to get
>>> more insight into activity/progress.
>>>
>>> In terms of what you might do, take a look a our CI env
>>> https://builds.apache.org/view/S-Z/view/ZooKeeper/
>>> notice that we have three builds running on windows, some with vs2008
>>>
>>> Likely you'd want to run the same but in your environment, probably
>>> on
>>> 3.4.5 release
>>>
>>> It would be great if you could enter JIRAs/patches for the things you
>>> find. If you're "comfortable" at some point then I don't see why we
>>> couldn't update the docs and make it official in an upcoming release.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:24 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> We would certain be interested in helping giving feedback on the server 
>>>> stability on Windows. I'm trying to push for increased adoption of 
>>>> Zookeeper in the org, but the message in the docs itself puts off my 
>>>> managers a bit from pushing full ahead, so it's a bit of a chicken and egg 
>>>> situation. If there are test suites we can run to help you out I can look 
>>>> at running them here on Windows...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Patrick Hunt [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>> Sent: 09 January 2014 22:40
>>>> To: UserZooKeeper
>>>> Subject: Re: Windows support (Win-64)
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>> >> +
>>>>>> >> Wi
>>>>>> >> ndow
>>>>>> >> 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_su
>>>>>> >> p
>>>>>> >> po
>>>>>> >> rted
>>>>>> >> Platforms
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Should this be a documentation fix?
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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