Daniel Vimont created HBASE-16568: ------------------------------------- Summary: Remove Cygwin-oriented instructions (for installing HBase in Windows OS) from official reference materials Key: HBASE-16568 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16568 Project: HBase Issue Type: Improvement Components: documentation Affects Versions: 2.0.0 Reporter: Daniel Vimont Assignee: Daniel Vimont Priority: Minor
Cygwin-oriented instructions in the official reference materials (for installing HBase in a Windows environment) seem to be out of date and incorrect; a number of unresolved/unresolvable requests for help have been posted to d...@hbase.org and u...@hbase.org mailing lists. Discussions on d...@apache.org and HBase Slack channel resulted in (1) no volunteers to update/maintain the Cygwin-oriented instructions, and (2) several "+" votes and no "-" votes on the suggestion of removing Cygwin-oriented instructions from the official reference materials. FUTURE POSSIBLE FOLLOW-UP: For the sake of setting up a development/testing/sandbox environment in Windows, it might be helpful to recommend the installation of a virtual machine environment (e.g. VirtualBox) in a Windows OS, followed by the installation of an appropriate flavor of Linux (e.g., Ubuntu) in the VM. After this, all the standard HBase installation/config/usage instructions can be followed. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)