Run Falcon on Windows with graceful degradation of forking, etc. about falcon

[ioquatix]

Hi @johnnyshields sorry I have not replied sooner, but I have finally got Windows support working on io-event gem: https://github.com/socketry/io-event/actions/runs/3241374541/jobs/5313228043

I also started trying to get UNIXSocket working on Windows which isn't strictly necessary but would be pretty useful: ruby/ruby#6513

Windows support required additional changes to Ruby itself, which are now done and will be released as part of Ruby 3.2 - however I was able to get it working albeit fairly inefficiently on 3.1 - so now I just need to add Windows to the Async test matrix.

I'll try to take a look over that over the next month - in theory I don't think it's too hard but I don't really know sometimes Windows support throws a curve ball.

[johnnyshields]

@ioquatix good to hear from you. That's amazing!! Will check it out when Ruby 3.2 is out in a few months.

[cwkatzmann]

Checking to see if any progress has been made. I would also like to run Falcon on Windows.

[ioquatix]

It's slow but we are making progress, io-event is now supported on Windows. async is to a certain extent but it depends on some core changes to Ruby to make non-blocking IO the default.

[cwkatzmann]

Okay thanks. And is that only for Ruby 3.2?

[ioquatix]

Yes, and it will probably require Ruby 3.3 on Windows for this all to be supported, although we might be able to make it work on 3.2.

[cwkatzmann]

Okay, thanks for the update! looking forward to using this tech on Windows :)