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Alok Lal updated KAFKA-1230:
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Attachment: 0001-Added-changes-so-that-bin-.sh-files-can-work-with-CY.patch
This is from the head of my fork. Please advise if you'd rather get it by me
applying on a branch, etc.
> shell script files under bin don't work with cygwin (bash on windows)
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> 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: 0.8.0, 0.8.1
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> Attachments:
> 0001-Added-changes-so-that-bin-.sh-files-can-work-with-CY.patch
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> Original Estimate: 24h
> Remaining Estimate: 24h
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> 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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