Alok Lal created KAFKA-1230:
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Summary: shell script files under bin don't work with cygwin (bash
on windows)
Key: KAFKA-1230
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1230
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Components: tools
Affects Versions: 0.8.0
Environment: The change have been tested under GNU bash, version
4.1.11(2)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin) running on Windows 7 Enterprise.
Reporter: Alok Lal
Fix For: 0.8.1, 0.8.0
h3. Introduction
This bug is being created for a pull request that I had submitted earlier for
these. Per Jun this is so changes confirm to Apache license.
h3. Background
The script files to run Kafka under Windows don't work as is. One needs to hand
tweak them since their location is not bin but bin/windows. Further, the script
files under bin/windows are not a complete replica of those under bin. To be
sure, this isn't a complaint. To the contrary most projects now-a-days don't
bother to support running on Windows or do so very late. Just that because of
these limitation it might be more prudent to make the script files under bin
itself run under windows rather than trying to make the files under bin/windows
work or to make them complete.
h3. Change Summary
Most common unix-like shell on windows is the bash shell which is a part of the
cygwin project. Out of the box the scripts don't work mostly due to
peculiarities of the directory paths and class path separators. This change set
makes a focused change to a single file under bin so that all of the script
files under bin would work as is on windows platform when using bash shell of
Cygwin distribution.
h3. Motivation
Acceptance of this change would enable a vast body of developers that use (or
have to use) Windows as their development/testing/production platform to use
Kafka's with ease. More importantly by making the running of examples smoothly
on Windoes+Cygwin-bash it would make the process of evaluation of Kafka simpler
and smoother and potentially make for a favorable evaluation. For, it would
show commitment of the Kafka team to espouse deployments on Windows (albeit
only under cygwin). Further, as the number of people whom use Kafka on Windows
increases, one would attract people who can eventually fix the script files
under bin/Windows itself so that need to run under Cygwin would also go away,
too.
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