Command line tools overview

The virtual_ecosystem package currently provides a single command line tool ve_run. This is tool is likely to be superseded as the project develops, either by a set of command line tools or a single more generic tool.

The ve_run command line tool

The ve_run command line tool exists to run the Virtual Ecosystem model. At the moment this consists of validated a set of schema files, using their contents to initialise a set of models and then setting up the main simulation loop. It goes no further than that, and no actual simulation steps are performed. This will change in the future.

Using ve_run

The usage instructions for ve_run can be found by calling:

ve_run --help

Essentially, you can run the Virtual Ecosystem model by calling:

ve_run path/to/config/file.toml path/to/second/config/file.toml