I also like the idea of having a precommit build in Windows. If only the pre-commit infrastructure was reliable. If this is a pain, I see little value making Windows unit test failures release blockers.
Thanks, Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 28, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@effectivemachines.com> > wrote: > > >> On Oct 27, 2016, at 8:20 PM, Brahma Reddy Battula >> <brahmareddy.batt...@huawei.com> wrote: >> >> As we supporting the Hadoop in windows, I feel, we should have pre-commit >> build in windows( atleast in qbt). > > > I actually tried to get Apache Yetus testing Apache Hadoop on the > hadoop-win box last year. (This was before qbt mode existed.) I gave up > because the components needed to build trunk weren't installed and it looked > like the box itself was ill. I moved on to the Mac build which, while tricky, > got it working with a bit of magic. Then they took the Mac away. IBM > provided access to a PowerPC machine, so I moved onto the ppc64le build. > After a lot of hand wringing, we got it up and running and stable enough to > show how broken the build is by our usage of leveldbjni. > > It should be noted that getting infra support for non-Linux/x86 builds is > a pretty major exercise in frustration. They don't really have the time, > those boxes tend to go down often, and rarely get updated. (The Solaris box > is running a really old build of Solaris 10. So old, that when it came out, > I was still employed by Sun...) If folks are actually serious about adding > more platforms, then I'd suggest that some of these big vendors actually > cough up some cash to move the precommit infrastructure off of the ASF and > onto something more reliable with more platform diversity. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org
