<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml;charset=UTF-8"/> <title>Frepple / Introduction </title> <link rel='stylesheet' href='../styles.css' type='text/css' /> <!--PageHeaderFmt--> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="menubar"> <div id="logo" align="center"> <br/><img src='../frepple.bmp' alt="frepple" /><br/> <a href='http://www.frepple.com/'> <strong>a Free<br/>Production Planning<br/>Library</strong> </a></div> <div id="menu"> <br/> <h3><a href='../Main/HomePage.html'>Main</a></h3> <h3><a href='../UI/Main.html'>User Manual</a></h3> <h3><a href='../Tutorial/Main.html'>Tutorial</a></h3> <h3><a href='Main.html'>Reference Manual</a></h3> <h3><a href='../Main/FAQ.html'>FAQ</a></h3> <h3><a href='../reference/index.html'>C++ API</a></h3> <br/><div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <br/> <!--PageText--> <div id='wikitext'> <p><a class='wikilink' href='../Main/HomePage.html'>Main</a> > <span class='wikitrail'><a class='wikilink' href='Main.html'>Reference Manual</a> > <a class='selflink' href='Overview.html'>Introduction</a></span> </p> <p class='vspace'>FrePPLe aims at building a lightweight open source framework for modeling and solving production planning problems.<br />FrePPLe is the first open source production planning toolkit for your day-to-day production planning problems. </p> <p class='vspace'>For the developer community, the project is also trying to establish a common ground framework for planning applications. Rather than rebuilding the basic foundation from scratch over and over again, developers can now leverage a proven framework to extend with their own extension modules.<br />New workflows and functionality can now be built much quicker and easier. </p> <p class='vspace'>The word "free" in the project name refers to liberty, not price. Think of "freedom of speech" rather than "free beer": see the free software definition at <a target='_blank' class='urllink' href='http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html' rel='nofollow'>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html</a>. </p> <div class='vspace'></div><ol><li><a class='wikilink' href='OverviewFeatures.html'>Features</a> </li><li><a class='wikilink' href='OverviewArchitecture.html'>Architecture</a> <ol><li><a class='wikilink' href='OverviewCore.html'>Core library</a> </li><li><a class='wikilink' href='OverviewDjango.html'>User interface and database layer</a> </li></ol></li></ol> </div> <!--PageFooterFmt--> <!--HTMLFooter--> </div></div> </body> </html>
