Tryton, an ERP Adapted to Your Needs

Who am I?

Sergi Almacellas Abellana

(Python ♥) Programmer
Open source enthusiast
Tryton commiter since Nov 2013

What's Tryton?

Is a three-tier high-level general purpose application platform under the license GPL-3 written in Python and using PostgreSQL as database engine.

What's Tryton?

It is the base of a complete business solution.

What Flask is for web, but for building an ERP.

Architecture

Database Agnostic: (PostgreSQL as Main database)
WSGI Server (JSON-RPC)
Desktop Client (for Linux/Mac/Windows)
Web Client

Have a look at the clients:

Desktop (PyGTK)

Have a look at the clients:

Web

How is Tryton?

Open Source
Secure
Scalable
Customizable
Consistent

Continously evolving

Development Process

BluePrint (discussion)
CodeReview
Automated Test + CI
Feature Freeze
PyPI
No API changes in released versions

Releases

New release every 6 months
5 major versions supported (2.5 years)
Your data will be migrated
You choose when to upgrade

Development version is (normally) stable

Coding in Tryton

Python ZEN
KISS
DRY
PYSON
Domains and python-sql
Mixins

Coding in Tryton


class Conference(Workflow, ModelSQL, ModelView):
    'Conference'
    __name__ = 'conference'
    _states = {
        'readonly': Eval('state') != 'draft',
        }
    _depends = ['state']
    name = fields.Char('Name', required=True, states=_states, depends=_depends)
    start_date = fields.Date('Start Date', required=True,
        states=_states, depends=_depends)
    end_date = fields.Date('End Date', states=_states, depends=_depends)
    organizer = fields.Many2One('party.party', 'Organizer',
        states=_states, depends=_depends)
    state = fields.Selection([
            ('draft', 'Draft'),
            ('confirmed', 'Confirmed'),
            ('done', 'Done'),
            ], 'State', readonly=True, required=True)
    del _states, _depends