Thoughts on system properties for startup

[Tom Zeller]

>>Yeah, I think it's worth warning on that. I'm even ok converting them if
>>it's a universal fix. I just didn't want to define a special property for
>>that and end up with it only working for some things. But I think warning,
>>or even just failing outright on it, is probably enough.
>
> As an example, if we start trying to add leading or trailing slashes to
> fix some particular hacky bit of code in Spring or whereever, that's where
> I'm trying to head off things. If we have to do that, I'd want to define a
> specific property for "Spring hacky bit of code XXX" that addresses that
> need and not try and overload multiple hacky bits of code on top of each
> other, because I think they'll change behavior over time. Keeping each
> hack isolated to its own property lets us fix things that break without
> cross-talk.

I get that, I do.