Hi Patrick, Thanks for your response. I start running ZK on windows and let you know if I run into issues.
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > > Vishal K wrote: > >> We will be using zookeeper quite extensively for clustering. Windows is >> one >> of the platforms that we may need to support. Since Win32 is not supported >> as a production platform I was wondering to what extent is zookeeper >> tested >> on windows. We are also interested on using Zookeeper on Win64 platform. >> Is >> Win64 supported? Are there any plans to support Win32/Win64 for >> production? >> If not, what would one need to do support windows and what would be the >> estimated QA effort? >> > > My use of ZK is exclusively 32/64bit linux, however I can tell you that > given that the client/server are implemented in java it should work. > Problems you might encounter would be things like NIO issues with the JVM > implementation on windows. > > Testing on windows? Pretty much 0 afaik. We do support development on > cygwin, so provides some basic exercising of the codepaths with the windows > jvm, however it's not likely production level qa. > > This question (zk on win) has come up once or twice before, I haven't seen > any followup from the users who asked about it previously though. > > 3.3.0 has batch files for running the server in windows, give those a try. > Probably what you'd want to do is run "ant test-core-java" or similar in the > top of the ZK release directory. This will run all the java tests and give > you some insight into status. I'd be happy to work with you to land patches > that address issues with ZK on windows. Depending on the interest level and > support from win users we could support win as a dev/prod platform at some > point in the future - having ongoing support for this would be important > though (people interested in testing/fixing under win I mean). Try > exercising under windows and create some JIRAs based on what you find. > > Regards, > > Patrick >
