https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-145
That is the ticket which the boostrap work is under. Though it is lacking in the overall context in which we need though contributions. The bottom line is that we need to make it easy for folks to install nifi as a service or simply a stand alone app on a variety of platforms. One possible approach which has promise is this bootstrap concept. Research I (and Tony) have done of what appears to be common/typical did not leave me feeling like we had a strong solution just yet which would give a good user experience. The bootstrap idea Mark is working sounds interesting though. The ticket should be updated further to reflect the problem space and thinking more though to invite collaboration. Thanks Joe On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > Joe, > > is there already a jira tracking the need for a service wrapper? > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:26 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Jake > > > > Certainly. We used what was a very solid service wrapper previously that > > is not compatible with Apache. So now we're sort of feeling our way > > through how best to tackle this. It is our intent that folks on most > OS's > > the the JVM supports can fire up NiFi and do good things including full > > legit service integration. > > > > It will take us time to get there and if there are folks in the community > > with good ideas around how best to do this in Java land we really need > your > > help! > > > > Thanks > > Joe > > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jake Visser <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Thanks for applying that Joe, > > > > > > I just fetched the latest dev branch and it is all working nicely for > me. > > > There does seem to also be some rapid development within bootstrap > branch > > > that looks promising - I might have a look into that more tonight and > > also > > > see about some of the other anomalies that OS X is creating [this is > the > > > first time I have see/used nifi on a mac - but its a nice change]. > > > > > > Thanks again and I look forward to helping out and contributing back > > where > > > I can. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Jake > > > > > > > > > > On 10 Dec 2014, at 11:56 pm, Joseph Witt (JIRA) <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > [ > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-154?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14241044#comment-14241044 > > > ] > > > > > > > > Joseph Witt commented on NIFI-154: > > > > ---------------------------------- > > > > > > > > Jake > > > > > > > > First thanks so much for contributing and providing a patch. We've > had > > > quite a few MacOS users commenting thus far so this could be really > > > helpful. I've confirmed it still works with linux. Can you please > check > > > it out on your end? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > commit 2735c6c253483fb72f5ec946264f321392950b72 > > > > Author: joewitt <[email protected]> > > > > Date: Wed Dec 10 07:38:12 2014 -0500 > > > > > > > > NIFI-154 contributed via JIRA by Jake Visser jake at nightrise dot > > > com dot au > > > > > > > > > > > >> Readlink not supported on OS X > > > >> ------------------------------ > > > >> > > > >> Key: NIFI-154 > > > >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-154 > > > >> Project: Apache NiFi > > > >> Issue Type: Bug > > > >> Components: Tools > > > >> Affects Versions: 0.0.1 > > > >> Environment: OSX > > > >> Reporter: Jake Visser > > > >> Assignee: Joseph Witt > > > >> Priority: Minor > > > >> Attachments: readlink-patch.diff > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> OS X does not support readlink, however greadlink is available with > > > near identical functionality (brew install coreutils). > > > >> nifi.sh needs to be modified to detect Darwin (and other effected > > > OS's?), and call the appropriate command. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > > > > (v6.3.4#6332) > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sean >
