[Box Backup] Support for BoxBackup Server on Windows

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Andrei,

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Andrei wrote:

> I know from the wiki that the 0.10 server doesn't run on windows.
>
> However, I'm wondering whether the same holds true for the latest code 
> in the subversion repository. Has any progress been made towards making 
> BoxBackup server run on Windows?

The answer is "kind of". It runs well enough (in my branch, not 0.10 
trunk) to make the unit tests pass.

But I don't think you'd want to run it on Windows in practice, especially 
if you had more than one client. The reason is that it's not 
multi-threaded, only one client can connect at a time, and housekeeping 
runs synchronously after the client disconnects, which may block the 
client from reconnecting for a long time, with a large data store.

Running a full multi-threaded server on Windows is not a priority for any 
of us at the moment, as far as I know.

Cheers, Chris.
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