Hi Patrick, We have not upgraded to 3.3.0 yet. We are using 3.2.2. I did notice the windows specific batch files in 3.3.0. How seemless is upgrade from 3.2.2 - > 3.3.0?
I will let you know if I run into any windows related problems. Thanks. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > Are you using 3.3.0? 3.3.0 included a number of fixes for cygwin and > includes windows specific batch files. If you are planning to deploy to > production on windows I'd encourage you to develop under windows directly as > well. > > If you find issues, bugs, etc... be sure to enter JIRAs. Don't worry, you > won't hurt our feelings, on the contrary we'll be happy if you find/fix > issues on windows and make things better for everyone. (just make sure you > are using the latest release). > > Regards, > > Patrick > > > > On 04/02/2010 07:05 AM, Vishal K wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was able to start zookeeper on windows using cygwin. I had to do minor >> changes to the shell scripts to use cygpath wherever needed. >> I will run a few tests and post the progress. I greped through the >> zookeeper >> sources just to check if ZK is using any native code. >> I didn't find any, but just to confirm - is ZK using native code. >> >> I have talked to a few guys around and they said it is fair to assume that >> the programs are portable (to Windows) if they don't have native code. >> Just >> wanted to check. Thanks. >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Vishal K<vishalm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>
