Heads up - merge branch-trunk-win to trunk

The support for Hadoop on Windows was proposed in HADOOP-8079 almost a year ago. The goal was to make Hadoop natively integrated, full-featured, and performance and scalability tuned on Windows Server or Windows Azure. We are happy to announce that

RE: Heads up - merge branch-trunk-win to trunk

Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 5:42 PM To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org; yarn-...@hadoop.apache.org; hdfs-...@hadoop.apache.org; mapreduce-...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Heads up - merge branch-trunk-win to trunk The support for Hadoop on Windows was proposed in HADOOP-8079<https://issues.apache.

Re: Heads up - merge branch-trunk-win to trunk

Thanks for the update Suresh. Has any testing been done on the branch on Linux aside from running the unit tests? Thanks, Eli On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Suresh Srinivas wrote: > The support for Hadoop on Windows was proposed in > HADOOP-8079

Re: Heads up - merge branch-trunk-win to trunk

I was planning to add details about the testing in the subsequent voting thread. As pointed out in the emails above, a lot of work is related to handling difference between the platforms related to paths and utilities. These changes lend themselves to be tested very well by the existing unit tests