I am trying to create environment-neutral configuration files to enable all developers on a project to have a working, local CD environment without having to customize configuration.

The main problem is that everything on the server is in the D:\ drive, but some developers do not have a D:\ drive, or do not want to use this or C:\ for their local environments.

I noticed that you can put environment variables in the logback.xml file to, for example generalize the log file path:

    <property name="log.folder" value="${TRIDION_HOME}/log/staging"/>

So long as each developer has a TRIDION_HOME environment variable, the logs will be created in the log sub directory.

I tried this for the license file location in cd_storage_conf.xml:

    <License Location="${TRIDION_HOME}/config/cd_licenses.xml"/>

But it doesnt work. I see it fails to load the license in the log:

    2013-10-02 08:55:19,670 WARN  StorageManagerFactory - Attempt to use license file ${TRIDION_HOME}/config/cd_licenses.xml failed, file does not exist. A LicenseException will be thrown.

Is there another way to inject variables into the Content Delivery configuration files?