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Posted to dev@cassandra.apache.org by Ted Zlatanov <tz...@lifelogs.com> on 2009/11/16 17:42:50 UTC

Re: overriding directories from command line

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:54:45 -0600 Jonathan Ellis <jb...@gmail.com> wrote: 

>> A general configuration facility to allow named variables and
>> interpolation, similar to what the Apache Commons Configuration classes
>> do for XML Property files
>> (http://commons.apache.org/configuration/apidocs/org/apache/commons/configuration/XMLPropertiesConfiguration.html),
>> would be really nice too.

JE> I'd rather move away from XML entirely to something like
JE> http://jyaml.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html personally.

Whatever is used, I'm suggesting that named variables and interpolation
would be nice to have.  Do you think that's OK?  It would address all my
points and probably make life easier for other people, too.

Ted

Re: overriding directories from command line

Posted by Jonathan Ellis <jb...@gmail.com>.

in theory I am okay with that as long as it doesn't make maintaining
DatabaseDescriptor even more of a chore :)

2009/11/16 Ted Zlatanov <tz...@lifelogs.com>:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:54:45 -0600 Jonathan Ellis <jb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> A general configuration facility to allow named variables and
>>> interpolation, similar to what the Apache Commons Configuration classes
>>> do for XML Property files
>>> (http://commons.apache.org/configuration/apidocs/org/apache/commons/configuration/XMLPropertiesConfiguration.html),
>>> would be really nice too.
>
> JE> I'd rather move away from XML entirely to something like
> JE> http://jyaml.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html personally.
>
> Whatever is used, I'm suggesting that named variables and interpolation
> would be nice to have.  Do you think that's OK?  It would address all my
> points and probably make life easier for other people, too.
>
> Ted
>
>