run pipeline on windows computer

[sophiamaedler]

detected issues:

1. different file path denomination "" vs "/"
2. multiprocessing does not work

[sophiamaedler]

first encountered file path issue fixed in commit 9fc9052

[sophiamaedler]

to fix multithreading issued tried implementing: “if windows, then “spawn” otherwise “fork” (d09bd9e)

this only provides a partial fix as workers seem to be created but they continue endlessly without starting any proper computation

[sophiamaedler]

a quick workaround to at least get some version of the code running on windows could be to check for the operating system and if windows force threading to be turned off.

[sophiamaedler]

Windows will permanently only be supported for running without multiprocessing. Implementing a multithreaded version which is also functional on windows is out of scope at the moment.

Will retain this issue until for all processing steps a check has been implemented that automatically sets threads to 1 if a windows system is detected.