Reason for archiving this project?

[gokulm]

This project has been moved to MicrosoftArchive... what's the plan? any plans to support Redis for Windows? Can one of you recommend any other alternative?

[SebastianStehle]

Run it on Linux ;) ... We had so many problems with the Windows version and it was very stable on Linux.

[cihanb]

One option is to run vms or docker containers in windows with linux version.

[globules-io]

Bump. We are running this on windows for both dev & prod. We do not want to run some VMs or containers just for redis. Is MS done with maintaining that project? Alternatives?

[globules-io]

No reply. Why do MS always do this??? Start something, announce it aloud "we are now open source, we are now this and that blah blah" then quietly do a 360 and moonwalk away. Are you asking us to move from Windows to Linux again????????????

[andreis]

do a 360 and moonwalk away

I was preparing to be pedantic, but that was clever.

Also, big companies are big. There isn't a Big Brother pulling all the strings, but most likely a bunch of well intentioned engineers who either got diverted from the project, or left the company. You're right that Microsoft could improve its approach to OSS, but I'm optimistic about the direction they're taking, and other projects of theirs are run quite well (e.g. vscode). NB I have nothing to do with Microsoft and don't even particularly like them.

Also also, for OSS unless you're paying for support you can't really expect (or worse, demand) that something is maintained.

[smarkwell]

I'm sure that the team driving this internally got reassigned or moved on in some way. It would still be nice to have a more official statement on that transition than simply moving the repo to MS Archive. I guess props for at least doing that.

[tporadowski]

A week ago I also found out that this Redis port for Windows was moved to "MicrosoftArchive" and is no longer supported, yet my client planned to use it along with their ASP.NET and WCF-based solutions, so staying close to Windows is essential for them. While researching for another caching solution available for Windows platform I spent a couple of evenings to see how it could be updated to Redis 4.0.2. I haven't seen Redis code before and it's been a while since I last used C, so it all would be best summarized with:

;). Except that it works, partially, but works. You can find the updated code in my MSOpenTech/Redis fork, branch win-4.0.2. Please read the DISCLAIMER first in README as some vital parts are not fully working yet. There is also no binary release, but it can be compiled at least in VS2017.

I would of course like to get some feedback to see whether there is a need for a full port of Redis for Windows - then I could decide if I should get to know Redis' internals and all that stuff ;)

I will cross-post this also to other issues related to future of this project, so that everybody who's interested get to know about this: #525 #497 #523 #573 #565 #556 antirez/redis#4025

[globules-io]

Please yes! Thank you for doing that.

[enricogior]

Hi @gokulm @globules-io, this repository hasn't been updated in almost 3 years. But finally there is a new software that provides Redis compatibility on Windows, and is currently up-to-date with the Redis 5 API. See #620.