On Jan 8, 2008 12:15 AM, Tom Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 5:05 PM, Jurgis Pralgauskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there anything done in SchoolTool towards this? there's always a > > puzzle to make up timetable... > > I think the need emerges together with the wish/need to make > > curriculum more flexible. > > What do You and your known school administrators think? Is there a > > need for it in SchoolTool? > > Hi Jurgis, > > Yes, there is a need for it, but we're focusing on finishing up some > more basic functionality first. The next step will be to see if we > can do what we need to do by interfacing with another actively > maintained open source timetabling application, like Tablix.
If you would like to add such a module to schooltool yourself I could help you with introduction to schooltool code and concepts. But it would make more sense to do it as a separate python application (long running processing task is not something you'd want to run on a web server) and we would gladly support your file format. The fact that it would be in python would make it possible to share the file format "reading" code among both applications which makes it easier to support. As Tom said - we just don't have the resources to develop a good timetable generation application from scratch ourselces. On the other hand I could help you reuse our object model for sections, courses, students and teachers so you could focus on constraint management and timetable generation algorithms. It might be easier to just import this data from schooltool instead of writing your own code to deal with data input. Ignas _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
