[CASSANDRA-7001] Windows launch feature parity - augment launch process using PowerShell to match capabilities of *nix launching

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1 rc1
• Component/s: Packaging
• Labels: Windows qa-resolved
• Assignee: Joshua McKenzie
• Reporter: Joshua McKenzie

Authors

Joshua McKenzie

Reviewers

Philip Thompson

• Tester: Philip Thompson
• Created: 08/Apr/14 17:30
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 14/May/14 16:10

Description

The current .bat-based launching has neither the logic nor robustness of a bash or PowerShell-based solution. In pursuit of making Windows a 1st-class citizen for C*, we need to augment the launch-process using something like PowerShell to get as close to feature-parity as possible with Linux.