[equark]

My design preference is to make sure the default option feels natural in the f# or ironpython interactive console. I should be able to interact with Riak with no XML and one line to connect. Obviously it's only 2% but it's the first 2%.

[OJ]

This is the most interesting point made so far. Agreed, I had not considered the likes of FSI. That does come with the issue of being painful reading XML config from app.config files, but can easily be handled via what we have.

Would you consider this to be out of the question:

    open CorrugatedIron.Comms
    
    let cluster = RiakCluster.CreateFromConfig("section", "path/to/file.config")
    let client = cluster.CreateClient()

[equark]

You should at least offer a no config file option, so I can just point to my localhost when testing things out.