
   Name
   ----
   APE v. 0.5.2.1
   
   
   Authors
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   Marcin Szpyrka (mszpyrka@agh.edu.pl) maintainer/developer
   Piotr Matyasik
   
   
   Description
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   APE tool is intended to be an advanced environment for modelling 
   and analysis of Petri nets. The tool supports a few classes of 
   low level Petri nets: place-transition nets, priority nets, 
   simple time nets and simple time nets with priorities.
   
   At the moment, APE consists of the following modules:
   graphical Petri nets' editor;
   graphical Petri nets' simulator;
   module for computing reachability/coverability graphs;
   module for computing place/transition invariants;
   module for exporting nets into the Xfig format;
   module for exporting nets into the SVG format.

   APE home page, hosting information about current status 
   of the project, is located at http://fm.ia.agh.edu.pl.


   Compilation
   -----------
   APE needs at least KDE3.1 and Qt3.1 to be installed. 
   Also to compile APE you need to install the development 
   packages for KDE3.1 and Qt3.1 as well.
   
   To compile source files :
   1. Unpack the ape-0.5.1.tar.gz file.
   2. cd to the directory containing the package's source code.
   3. Type qmake to generate Makefile.
   4. Type make to compile the package.


   Copyright
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   Copyright (C) 2003-2005 APE Team (fm.ia.agh.edu.pl).

   APE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
   any later version.

   APE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; see the file license.txt.
   If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
   59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. 

