User definable $PATH about mtools

[rueckstiess]

There is the --local flag, which kind of does something similar, but I like your suggestion better.

So currently, you have to change into the directory that has your specific mongod/mongos, then run mlaunch --local. I use that from the mongo build dir when I compile mongod for some testing.

It would be nicer to be able to do:

mlaunch --path /my/path/to/mongod  ...

Is that what you had in mind?

[gianpaj]

I thought if your run mlaunch without --local it would your the current directory. Or maybe that's what I would expect.
--path is a good idea.
$path is too awkward.

I'm just trowing this other idea out there, but what about having a mlaunch config file like .ssh/config does where you define several hosts, but in this case it would be for 'deployments' or tests.

So:

Recipe myfacebooklocaldev ( or something like Deployment )
Sharded 1
Mongos 1
Config 2
Replicaset true
Name fblocal
Dbpath /data/fblocal/
...

And you run this via:
mlaunch myfacebooklocaldev and voila!

[geoghegan]

That's a separate issue, @gianpaj . Yours is more configuration management than PATH specification (which should be available if there is ever a config file for various options)

[rueckstiess]

implemented with --binarypath PATH.