porting rhq48-storage-patch.sh to windows

Jay Shaughnessy jshaughn at redhat.com
Tue Jul 16 12:53:21 UTC 2013


+1,  Took the words out of my mouth.  Give me the instructions and I'll 
test it out.  I'd suggest putting the instructions at the top of the script.



On 7/16/2013 7:36 AM, John Mazzitelli wrote:
> I haven't been a daily windows user/developer for a while now, but I was - and for a long time. And I never had Python installed.
>
> That said, this is only needed for those specific people that have a) installed 4.8  b) are on Windows, and c) have data they want to keep when upgrading. I would say just give them good instructions on how to install Python on Windows. They can always uninstall it as soon as they run the script.
>
> Otherwise, you are going to be wasting time writing a bunch of throwaway Java code just to support Windows users on 4.8 (and I don't think there are many of them).
>
> Just my 0.02.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Michael Burman (gaYak on freenode) has ported the rhq48-storage-patch.sh
>> script to a Windows batch file. There is one issue though about which I
>> wanted to solicit feedback. The script executes CQL commands using cqlsh
>> which requires python. Python of course is not installed on Windows by
>> default. The question is, should the CQL portion of the script be ported to
>> Java, or have users install python so that the script can be executed via
>> cqlsh?
>>
>> - John
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