consider configargparse or similar to manage large sets of command line parameters

[PaulHancock]

aegean has a very long list of arguments/parameters available from the command line, to the point that it takes 2-3 screens to view them all. It would be nice for users to be able to set all the parameters in a config file.

Some options are:

• ConfigArgParse
• JsonArgParse

[tjgalvin]

For what it is worth i recently started to use configargparse in my flint package and it was a drop-in replacement. I was very happy with how easy it was.

The text file itself accepts a range of option formats - everything from a new-line delimited list of what you would others put on the cli, to a yaml format.