Re: Kafka Quick Start Documentation and Windows Support

2025-01-27 Thread Ukpa Uchechi
That's fair, I’ve run into issues trying to start Kafka with the batch file on Windows, like the "input line too long" error. The fixes for this aren’t straightforward and might not work across all Windows versions or setups. Right now, the documentation only mentions supported operating systems l

Re: Kafka Quick Start Documentation and Windows Support

2025-01-27 Thread Chia-Ping Tsai
hi Mickael, Your response is very helpful! In the documentation, we can focus solely on the "quick start" guide and include a reminder that the Windows version of [software/product name] is *not recommended for production use*. Best, Chia-Ping Mickael Maison 於 2025年1月27日 週一 下午10:33寫道: > Hi,

Re: Kafka Quick Start Documentation and Windows Support

2025-01-27 Thread Mickael Maison
Hi, One thing to keep in mind is that at the moment Windows not documented as a supported OS: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#os The main reason is the lack of testing. Our CI does not include Windows environments and as far as I'm aware none of the committers or active contributors run Ka

Re: Kafka Quick Start Documentation and Windows Support

2025-01-25 Thread Ukpa Uchechi
Hi Chia-Ping, Thank you for your encouraging response and for the helpful resource! I’ll submit a JIRA ticket and start working on the pull request. I’ll make sure to ping you once the PR is ready for review. I appreciate your willingness to review it. Best regards, Uchechi On Sat, 25 Jan 2025

Re: Kafka Quick Start Documentation and Windows Support

2025-01-25 Thread Chia-Ping Tsai
hi Uchechi This is an excellent suggestion. Considering Kafka provides numerous batch scripts tailored for Windows users ( https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/trunk/bin/windows), I encourage you to submit a JIRA ticket and a pull request to enrich the documentation with Windows-specific instructi