The Pan Galactic Engineering Framework (pangalactic) is an open-architecture, standards-based software framework for engineering applications such as systems engineering data and tool integration, product lifecycle management (PLM), computer-aided tools (CAX) integration, collaborative systems engineering, design, and analysis, and multi-disciplinary product model capture, integration, synthesis, and transformation.
The framework consists of 3 Python "namespace packages":
pangalactic.corecontains the ontology, a sqlalchemy-based object-relational api (the "uberorb"), and various utility functions, reference data, and metadata definitions.pangalactic.node(this package) contains the pyqt-based GUI client, pangalaxian.pangalactic.vgercontains the repository service.
As you might guess, pangalactic.node and pangalactic.vger both depend on
pangalactic.core for their infrastructure. The client and repository service
both have databases with the same schema, although the client uses sqlite and
the repository uses postgresql.
For detailed instructions see the file INSTALL in the pangalactic.core package
User documentation is in pangalactic/node/docs. Developer documentation is in
the pangalactic.core package NOTES_FOR_DEVELOPERS.md and other "NOTES" files.
Pangalactic depends on several excellent open source libraries, applications, and frameworks, most notably:
Thanks to all the talented and dedicated folks who have developed and continue to maintain those packages and others in the formidable open source code base that makes the Pan Galactic Engineering Framework possible!
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