+1 on yanking them. Only kind of related, but with the move to having an Ubuntu-based bash shell for Windows 10, folks interested in resurrecting the instructions should focus on that as a deployment environment.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Daniel Vimont <dan...@commonvox.org> 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 outdated and unsupported, yet apparently "official") instructions for 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 Given that these instructions do appear to be outdated and unsupported, I 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 >
