SPRING_DATADIR

[Argh]

What does this mean, in a practical sense?

SPRING_DATADIR environment variable overrides ALL other ways to set data directories

[Auswaschbar]

That the directorie(s) specified in SPRING_DATADIR environment variable are checked first when looking for data.

Because the write directory will be the first dir with writing permissions, the engine will choose the one from SPRING_DATADIR if it is writable.

[Tobi]

I made the change because SPRING_DATADIR is the only practical way to overrule the data dir setting from e.g. a script that starts spring. (I don't count sed -i in config files as a practical way )

For normal user it doesn't change anything at all.

[AF]

Does this affect windows users at all?

[Tobi]

Yes, they can override the data directory now too with the SPRING_DATADIR environment variable...