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> >Okay people... sorry. Calm down.
> 
> No worries, I'm totally calm (I use pcb-rnd, and none of these ideas 
> affect that fork).
> 
> >
> >Let us start a technical discussion.
> >
> >Igor2: I didn't want to reflect your other points.
> >
> >There is for exaple distance calculation code, polygon handling, so for
> >example we could detect polygons that are fully covered by another one. That
> >is only one thing.
> >But there are others.
> 
> I think we should go the other way around. First enumerate what exactly is 
> needed to clean up the current code at the parts where things are 
> happening nowdays (Britton is in a good position for that, I think). Then 
> enumerate what's needed to clean up other parts of the code, like the poly 
> dicer or the toporouter. Finally enumerate what kind of plans PCB has for 
> the future and what features could potentially help those.
> 
> Once there's a list, it makes sense to evaluate libs, see if they provide 
> all items on the list and how much extra (useful stuff or bloat) they 
> would bring in. If it turns out there's no good deal with existing libs, 
> don't be affraid to roll our own.
> 
> Picking a lib without these steps seems unreasonable to me.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Igor2

Agree.

What I now about is about: Draw different primitives which probably are the same as in Gerber, calculate distance between edges of primitives, calculate which objects overlap and hence form a physical net according to ohms law, calculate narrowest passage between different points for minimum trace width.

Nicklas Karlsson

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