Apple open-sources FoundationDB

Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by dman on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:12PM (#16878438)

Noticed the Visual Studio project files. Was Windows a primary development platform for foundationdb?

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by panghy on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:50PM (#16879483)

Nope, the actor compiler is down with mono and your need windows to compile the windows client. When we were independently working on it, we just ditched the windows code completely (we are a mac/linux shop)

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by polskibus on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:30AM (#16882595)

Does it mean that client is unusable on Windows?

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by voidmain on Friday April 20, 2018 @09:07AM (#16884415)

Before FDB was acquired by Apple, a lot of the engineers used Visual Studio on Windows. It's a good IDE for C++. You certainly don't need it to develop though!

Windows was never the most important deployment platform for the product. I'm not sure how performant the server is. But it should work, and I would think the client is fine.

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