http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/tags/windows Software, Support, and Training for Apache Cassandra en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:42:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/search.php http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/datastax-windows-install-hijacks-java-and-python#post-4799 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:06:49 +0000 nickmbailey 4799@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>Marek,</p> <p>We appreciate the feedback. All of the points you bring up are valid, and we have plans to have the installer address them in the future.</p> <p>Regarding a workaround, unfortunately there is no way to prevent the installer from modifying those environment variables. You shoud however, be able to revert the changes made there, and still have OpsCenter work, if a few modifications are made to the opscenter start up scripts. We will verify what changes need to be made and that everything works correctly in that situation and get back to you soon.</p> <p>-Nick </p> http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/installing-the-datastax-community-binaries-on-windows-xp-professional#post-4594 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:33:17 +0000 mbulman 4594@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>It's not officially supported, but in our tests in the past things seemed to work okay. Let us know how it goes. </p> http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/installing-the-datastax-community-binaries-on-windows-xp-professional#post-4593 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:29:43 +0000 sum13in 4593@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Please let me know can I install the DataStax Community Binaries on Windows XP Professional.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Suman </p> http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/datastax-windows-install-hijacks-java-and-python#post-4380 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 06:15:01 +0000 marek 4380@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>Hi!</p> <p>I installed the 32-bit version of the Datastax Community edition and after that all sorts of strange things started happening.</p> <p>Turns out that during the install, it hijacked my Java and Python installs and redirected them to its own private versions, contaminated my JAVA_HOME and PYTHONPATH (referring them to its private installs of Java and Python) and prepended itself to the system PATH.<br /> The PATH thing I can ALMOST forgive, as there are a gazillion other software packages that do the same and it has become an irritating modus operandi. What I DO object to, however, is hijacking my Python (version 3.x, instead of 2.whatever the Datastax CE uses) and Java installations (WTF is the point in keeping my Java up to date, allowing its stupid updater to run and pester me continuously when suddenly somebody comes along and voids all that "effort"?). Politely put, this is BS. The installer, of course, did not ASK nor WARN me of this. All that it was concerned about was, if I wanted to start the Datastax services on boot.</p> <p>A similar topic was already at <a href="http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/datastax-community-windows-installer-eclipse" rel="nofollow">http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/datastax-community-windows-installer-eclipse</a></p> <p>Now, to end this rant in a constructive way: Is there a way to kindly request (or force) the Datastax CE (or its installer) to not contaminate my (development) system with its "business" or is the only workaround to install it in a separate (or virtual) machine which it can keep all for itself? </p>