> > I'm concerned about the above. Personally, I don't have access to any > Windows boxes with development tools, and I know nothing about developing > on Windows. The only Windows I run is an 8GB VM with 1 GB RAM allocated, > for powerpoint :)
> If I submit a patch and it gets -1 "tests failed" on the Windows slave, how > am I supposed to proceed? > I think a reasonable compromise would be that the tests should always > *build* on Windows before commit, and contributors should do their best to > look at the test logs for any Windows-specific failures. But, beyond > looking at the logs, a "-1 Tests failed on windows" should not block a > commit. > I think these concerns may be exaggerated. I have attached a patch to the jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12571338/branch-trunk-win-min.patch The number of lines goes to 1537 lines from the original patch with 15958 lines. So the choice of Java in Hadoop meant that the work required was minimal. Most of the changes are related platform specific behavior such File separator and line separator which are fairly trivial to debug and fix.
