I am not sure that it should say anything different.. I would like to run Hive on Windows. I was wondering if any details existed on why Cygwin didn't work or an alternative for Windows other than using Hortonworks.
>From my point of view is it valid to say that no other details exist and use >the source. From: Lefty Leverenz [mailto:leftylever...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 9:53 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Hive on Windows w/Hadoop 2.2.0 That's from the first sentence of Getting Started, which needs to be rewritten: DISCLAIMER: Hive has only been tested on unix(linux) and mac systems using Java 1.6 for now - although it may very well work on other similar platforms. It does not work on Cygwin. What should it say instead? -- Lefty On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Eric Hanson (BIG DATA) <eric.n.han...@microsoft.com<mailto:eric.n.han...@microsoft.com>> wrote: HDP runs on Windows: http://hortonworks.com/products/hdp-windows/#install I don't know if it uses Cygwin or not but everything needed to run Hive on Windows should be in the install package. Eric From: Ian Jackson [mailto:ian_jack...@trilliumsoftware.com<mailto:ian_jack...@trilliumsoftware.com>] Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 8:55 AM To: user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org> Subject: Hive on Windows w/Hadoop 2.2.0 Reading the Wiki (cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/GettingStarted<http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/GettingStarted>), it states "It does not work on Cygwin." Do further details exist or hints to make work on Windows?
