Hello, This issue has been outstanding for a while and impacting us both in development and deployment time. We have had to manually build kafka core jar and use it to work with Windows for over a year. The auto log/index cleanup feature is very important for us on Windows because it helps us avoid potential downtime for brokers so that they can be removed manually.
I have raised 2 pull requests so far but it was not considered at all. The patch is quite simply but works with both Win/Linux platforms without impacting any existing operation. The latest pull request is here https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4947 I would be grateful if someone kindly considers this issue as Windows is still a valid platform and we would like to utilise the cleanup functionality that comes out of the box. Regards,
