2009/11/16 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>:
> - allow a prefix here, e.g. /usr/local/cassandra instead of the default /var

-1 on this, I think it makes it too easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

> - allow passing the prefix and any of the directories from the command
>  line

-1 on this too; we've already made it easy to run different config
files from the same binaries --
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/RunningCassandra -- and
search-and-replace is easy enough.

> 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.

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

-Jonathan

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