So guys, do we want to do these in 0.8? The first patch was a little involved but I think it would be good to have windows support in 0.8 and it sounds like Tim is able to get things working after these changes.
-Jay On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Timothy Chen <tnac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Btw, I've been running this patch in our cloud env and it's been working > fine so far. > > I actually filed another bug as I saw another problem on windows locally ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1036). > > Tim > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That would be great! > > > > -Jay > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Timothy Chen <tnac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Jay, > > > > > > I'm planning to test run Kafka on Windows in our test environments > > > evaluating if it's suitable for production usage. > > > > > > I can provide feedback with the patch how well it works and if we > > encounter > > > any functional or perf problems. > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Elizabeth and I have a patch to support our memory mapped offset > index > > > > files properly on Windows: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1008 > > > > > > > > Question: Do we want this on 0.8 or trunk? I would feel more > > comfortable > > > > with it in trunk, but that means windows support in 0.8 is known to > be > > > > broken (as opposed to "not known to be broken but not known to be > > working > > > > either" since we are not doing aggressive system testing on windows). > > > > > > > > I would feel more comfortable doing the patch on 0.8 if there was > > someone > > > > who would be willing to take on real load testing and/or production > > > > operation on Windows so we could have some confidence that Kafka on > > > Windows > > > > actually works, otherwise this could just be the tip of the iceberg. > > > > > > > > Also it would be great to get review on that patch regardless of the > > > > destination. > > > > > > > > -Jay > > > > > > > > > >
