Yes please to complete removal. The docs at this point cause more trouble than they're worth.
-Dima On Tuesday, August 16, 2016, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 on pulling cygwin.adoc off. > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Vimont <dan...@commonvox.org > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > There are recurring user-list postings[1][2] (and the occasional JIRA[3]) > > from confused individuals who are attempting to follow the (apparently > > outdated and unsupported, yet apparently "official") instructions for > > Cygwin-based installation of HBase in a Windows environment[4]. > > > > Given that these instructions do appear to be outdated and unsupported, I > > would recommend that we simply pull them from the official documentation. > > (Yes, we could put a big banner up at the top of the Cygwin instructions > > that announces them as severely deprecated -- "Here be monsters" -- but > why > > leave bogus instructions lying around?) > > > > Big questions: > > (a) Is there anyone who wants to update the Cygwin instructions? > > (b) Assuming that the answer to question (a) is "no"[5], then should we > > pull the Cygwin instructions (hbase/src/main/site/asciidoc/cygwin.adoc) > > out > > of the official Reference materials? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dan > > > > [1] > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201608.mbox/% > > 3C0e035a2a13e041fdae95d204857c271a%40HK2PR3007MB0132.064d.mgd.msft.net > %3E > > [2] > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201608.mbox/%3CCABL% > > 2BTmt2khhkgQD%2BppUCewJ9Dvhsx-WqqkGFG%2B_TGZjpu%2Bh2iw%40mail.gmail.com > %3E > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16424 > > [4] https://hbase.apache.org/cygwin.html > > [5] ... or more likely, that question (a) is simply met with the sound of > > crickets vigorously chirping > > > -- -Dima
