From: Ben Darnell Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:12:07 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Document Windows support (or lack thereof). X-Git-Tag: v3.2.0b1~94 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e03e826355fa4808d776527d4184c5e54ffcf6f9;p=thirdparty%2Ftornado.git Document Windows support (or lack thereof). Closes #871. --- diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index c04528429..61aca470e 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -103,9 +103,12 @@ features may require one of the following libraries: **Platforms**: Tornado should run on any Unix-like platform, although for the best performance and scalability only Linux (with ``epoll``) -and BSD (with ``kqueue``) are recommended (even though Mac OS X is -derived from BSD and supports kqueue, its networking performance is -generally poor so it is recommended only for development use). +and BSD (with ``kqueue``) are recommended for production deployment +(even though Mac OS X is derived from BSD and supports kqueue, its +networking performance is generally poor so it is recommended only for +development use). Tornado will also run on Windows, although this +configuration is not officially supported and is recommended only for +development use. Discussion and support ----------------------