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simfactory --mdbkey syntax is horrible
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apparently simfactory requires me to do:
sim --mdbkey=optionlist my-very-own-option-list --thornlist=einsteintoolkit.th to overwrite mdb entries from the command line (and --define --substitue --replace --append --mdbkey). I have to admit I would not have guessed that from the help text which states:
options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --define=DEFINE set additional definition --mdbkey=MDBKEY override an mdb key
I would like to suggest to either change the help text to
--mdbkey=MDBKEY MDBVALUE or to support something like
--mdbkey="MDBKEY=VALUE" with or without quotation marks instead maybe.
Is there a full documented list of valid mdb entries somewhere?
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There is no such documentation at the moment. There is a file called simfactory/etc/syntax/mdb-syntax.ini which contains the information which is output with --help for the MDB entries. I think this is the place that these things should be documented, at least minimally. The command line options are documented in simfactory/etc/options, but this is a little confused at the moment and should be tidied up. The SimFactory user guide aims to parse these files and extract the documentation. This has been done for the command-line options but not for the MDB entries yet. See http://damiana2.aei.mpg.de/~ianhin/simfactoryuserguide/reference.html.