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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:35:45 -0800
From: Patrick Hunt <phunt@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Why is not win32 usable in production?
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There are 3 principal components to zookeeper: java server and client, c 
client. The c client is used in the perl/python bindings (available in 
the contrib directory).

The java code itself should run in any JVM 1.6 or later, however the 
docs/scripts and C code typically only run under unix or unix-like 
environments. This is why we recommend cygwin for windows.

Patrick

ps. someone has contributed windows batch files for running the 
server/client, but this is currently unreleased change - it's slated to 
be included in the upcoming 3.3.0 release. Obviously you could just run 
the jvm w/o the scripts, this is fine.

Jiro Iwamoto wrote:
> thank you for replying,  Patric.
> 
> OK. And I have question. Is cygwin used in zookeeper?
> I think that zookeeper is composed of only Java. Is it right?
> 
> thank you.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Patrick Hunt <phunt@apache.org> wrote:
>> The primary reason is testing. Secondly there just hasn't been much (any
>> really) interest in win32 for production, it's not used on that platform and
>> confidence is low as a result. We'd need to find one or more
>> users/developers that are interested in testing and fixing any issues found
>> on win32 (this would include one or more of the; java server, java client, c
>> client components), preferably someone who's actively using win32/zk in
>> production. Interested?
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> ps there's also the issue of cygwin vs native win32. I'm assuming that if
>> you want to run win32 in production you want native.
>>
>> Jiro Iwamoto wrote:
>>> Hi there.
>>>
>>> I'm investigating "zookeeper" on win32.
>>> I read that zookeeper is only usable on win32 development platform but
>>> not production platform in this page.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.2.2/zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_systemReq
>>>
>>> Why cannot zookeeper use on win32 production platform?
>>> Zookeeper is not tested well in win32?
>>>
>>> Please tell me why.
>>>
>>> thanks.
>>>
> 
> 
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