[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-7136) Change default paths to ~ instead of /var

["Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-7136:
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There's a few minor niggles here:

# We don't want to just use ./ since that will do different things depending on cwd when user invokes bin/cassandra, but 
# I'm pretty sure Java won't convert ~ notation into The Right Thing, especially on Windows.  So if we want it to Just Work out of the box, we might need to say, "leave it blank for us to programmatically determine your home directory."
# The debian package won't be able to just use cassandra.yaml from the tree; we'll need to sed /var/ paths back in

> Change default paths to ~ instead of /var
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>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-7136
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7136
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>             Fix For: 2.1.0
>
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> Defaulting to /var makes it more difficult for both multi-user systems and people unfamiliar with the command line.



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