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On 11/04/14 21:21, al davis wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2014, Stefan Salewski wrote:
>> The primary question is, if someone other than
>> Alfons itself can understand his code at all (in reasonable
>> time).
> The code quality is excellent.  What it needs is user 
> documentation and a simple way to build it.  Just adding a 
> Makefile would go a long way.
>
> Don't worry.  The Kicad people will take care of it.
I just tried this out and I'm very impressed - I had a brief look at the
code and it seems readable and understandable.

Is there anyone making any attempts at integrating this into PCB yet or
is it purely discussion so far?

Value added to PCB by integrating the ideas in freerouting would be
enormous. We use PCB for all our layout tasks in house and the one thing
I wish it had was manual push and shove routing. 5 minutes with
freerouting had me dreaming of using it with one of my current layouts.

Export -> use freerouting -> import work flow would be a good start, but
I'd love to see PCB with these features...

What would be the best way to start this task? I have little knowledge
of the innards of PCB beyond exporters, but I'm very willing to work on
this...

Bert, I expect you have some plan in mind...???

Ed