On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > > > On 17 February 2015 at 21:52:47, Colin McCabe > (cmcc...@alumni.cmu.edu<mailto:cmcc...@alumni.cmu.edu>) wrote: > > Re: building Windows binaries. Do we release binaries for all the > Linux and UNIX architectures? I thought we didn't. It seems a little > inconsistent to release binaries just for Windows, but not for those > other architectures and OSes. I wonder if we can improve this > situation? > > > Windows has less variance; one CPU family; if you target one version its > there; if you test on that then you can say "works on 64-bit server 2012". > Win32 isn't handled no-one would ever use it in production (RAM limitations > alone). There's clearly interest in JIRA for a version of the client-side > code there > > There's a more subtle detail: we don't expect all windows users to have the > build tools. Whereas on Linux it's pretty much all there. > > Now, if someone wanted to produce native libs for other platforms, and help > test them, we'd probably have to think about what to do then. >
I guess one more issue is that Windows requires the native bits, whereas Linux does not. I suppose that's a good argument for doing it. > > On that topic, Colin -can you take a look at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10846 ; PowerPC native CRC. I > Think the latest patch isn't going to have any adverse effects on x86, but > more native-code reviews would help. > > I'll try to take a look tomorrow or maybe Friday. Long backlog right now. C.
