Personally I still use CCM on windows pretty often and the C# driver even has an appveyor job that runs tests with CCM on windows (the drivers smoke tests job does this as well). Setting up clusters with multiple nodes is not that easy with Docker and WSL 2 because the nodes run inside a VM.
In regards to WSL2, Microsoft has been improving the user experience for these use cases so I'm not sure how easy it is to set up these clusters with recent windows builds. WSL1 does not run inside a VM so there's no issues there. I think that not supporting Windows for local dev environments would make it harder for developers to get started with Apache Cassandra but if the community decides to completely drop Windows support then we should offer some kind of documentation on how to run Cassandra with WSL / Docker on Windows (currently there's no documentation for Windows users AFAIK). Yuki Morishita <yu...@apache.org> escreveu no dia quarta, 29/07/2020 à(s) 02:40: > Hi, > > I'd like to raise my concern about Windows support, as we are getting > closer to 4.0 release. > > Since the support for JDK11 (CASSANDRA-9608), Windows script to start > Cassandra is broken. > The fix for the script is posted to > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/CASSANDRA/issues/CASSANDRA-14608. > > Windows scripts are not maintained recently, and I don't think we have > any Windows environment in CI for testing. > I don't think it is a good idea to release Apache Cassandra with > broken Windows scripts. > > With the latest update of Windows 10, even the Windows 10 Home edition > users can use Docker for Windows if they enable WSL2 in their machine. > However, the update is not yet available for everyone, and I believe > many Enterprises hold onto upgrading to the latest version. Even if > they do so, they can disable WSL2 from using. Some companies may not > allow installing VirtualBox either. > > So, what we can do for 4.0 release: > > - Stop supporting Windows. Remove every bat/ps1 scripts from the > source and distribution. Encourage Windows users to use VM/Docker. > - Continue supporting Windows. Set up Windows test environment. Test > every Windows scripts for future releases. > > Since I saw enterprises with restricted dev environments (and saw > people trying to use cassandra on Windows on StackOverflow), I want to > have Windows scripts ready to be used. > But I'm also fine if we decide to remove all Windows scripts since I > use Docker anyway. > > Regards, > Yuki > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > >
