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[Chris Davis <chrismd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ron, first off I'm terribly sorry your message sat in a queue for 2 months.
Launchpad doesn't notify me when there are mailing list messages pending
approval and I got lax in checking so sorry for that.

I think this would be really valuable to a lot of people. While I don't plan
on "officially supporting" Windows as a platform for Graphite (because I
don't have a Windows install to test against) I think it would be great if
we could make it "unofficially supported" (ie. likely to work but not
regularly tested during development). There were probably some unix syscalls
in carbon that you had to deal with in some clever way, but I imagine all
that can be abstracted away into an os-aware module. Anyways, I'd love to
take a look at your implementation. Assuming your work is based off a
release like 0.9.8 there is probably a little work needed to get it in sync
with trunk (soon to be cut as 0.9.9).

Thanks,
Chris

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Ron Cordell <ron.cordell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just joined wikidot, and now Launchpad (I think ;) ). Anyway, I wanted to
> contact you directly because we've "ported" Graphite/Carbon to a Windows
> environment and have things working quite well. We did this because we
> really like the Graphite project and didn't want to have to re-invent the
> wheel to use the idea. I don't know if there's a ton of desire to use
> Graphite in Windows (I've seen maybe 1-2 requests or questions about it),
> but if you guys would like us to contribute this back to the project, we'd
> love to do it.
>
> A few caveats -- we're not Python devs; I had to learn Python to get
> Graphite working (but it's pretty straightforward). We're not familiar with
> the tools, libraries, installers, and all the stuff in a "Python world", so
> what we've done is to get things working and easily installable. There are
> lots of *nix-specific things in the Graphite/Carbon code, most of which are
> easily worked around and some which have no equivalent. But the thing works
> pretty well as it is in Windows and runs either stand alone under Django or
> IIS with the Fast-CGI module.
>
> If you think this is something you'd like to have contributed back, let us
> know and we'll determine the best way to do it. If not, we can always just
> blog it/document it and leave it at that :)
>
> Thanks, and thanks for the great stuff that Graphite provides.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron Cordell
>
>
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