[teejae]

Yep, I'm targeting an optimization engine at a more specific problem that might be useful to lots of consumers.

[johnla]

Would you make that open source? I'm interested in this problem. I'm sure there are some OS bin packing algorithms but I not familiar with ones that have separation and linking rules.

[teejae]

I'm using Optaplanner underneath, which is already open source.

https://www.optaplanner.org/