[jira] [Created] (OOZIE-1489) Support building and running Oozie on Windows

["David Wannemacher (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

David Wannemacher created OOZIE-1489:
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             Summary: Support building and running Oozie on Windows
                 Key: OOZIE-1489
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-1489
             Project: Oozie
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: build, core, examples, scripts, tests
         Environment: Windows
            Reporter: David Wannemacher


There are several issues that prevent Oozie from working on Windows natively (without Cygwin):

# Unix OS is enforced in the build.
# Platform-specific assumptions for file path formats. For example, assuming that forward slash is a valid path separator.
# Workarounds required for windows-specific issues. For example, environment variables referring to file paths are enclosed in double quotes, which need to be removed prior to using them.
# Unit tests make many platform-specific assumptions that break on windows.
# .sh scripts need to be ported to .cmd/.ps1.

Microsoft and Hortonworks have addressed these issues in a series of patches, which will now be ported to Apache Oozie trunk and submitted to the community for review. These patches will be attached in subtasks of this top-level Jira.

I will also document the assumptions and steps that are needed to build on Windows. One such assumption is that running unit tests require hadoop core built from branch-1-win.

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