[HBASE-16568] Remove Cygwin-oriented instructions (for installing HBase in Windows OS) from official reference materials

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Daniel Vimont
• Reporter: Daniel Vimont
• Created: 07/Sep/16 00:37
• Updated: 24/Jun/22 18:54
• Resolved: 27/Mar/18 23:40

Description

Cygwin-oriented instructions in the official reference materials (for installing HBase in a Windows environment) seem to be out of date and incorrect; a number of unresolved/unresolvable requests for help have been posted to [e-mail] and [e-mail] mailing lists.

Discussions on [e-mail] and HBase Slack channel resulted in (1) no volunteers to update/maintain the Cygwin-oriented instructions, and (2) several "+" votes and no "-" votes on the suggestion of removing Cygwin-oriented instructions from the official reference materials.

FUTURE POSSIBLE FOLLOW-UP: For the sake of setting up a development/testing/sandbox environment in Windows, it might be helpful to recommend the installation of a virtual machine environment (e.g. VirtualBox) in a Windows OS, followed by the installation of an appropriate flavor of Linux (e.g., Ubuntu) in the VM. After this, all the standard HBase installation/config/usage instructions can be followed.

Issue Links

• is part of: HBASE-18785 Blocker doc issues for 2.0.0