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[Ron Cordell <ron.cordell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris --

Thanks for the response! It's never too late ;)

We actually based our cut on a little earlier release - I believe we are
using the whisper db underneath at the moment. However, the unix sys calls
were gotten around as needed. We actually wrote a Windows service to help
with things a bit.

What is the best way to get the information about what we did to people out
there that might want to use it as a way to go forward?

Thanks!

-Ron

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Chris Davis <chrismd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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