Mail Archives: geda-user/2016/05/18/14:44:17
Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On 05/18/2016 01:09 PM, M. J. Everitt (m DOT j DOT everitt AT iee DOT org) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
>>> Hey folks. What is the current state of Freerouting with gEDA/PCB?
>>> Are we able to interface to it at all, in any way?
>>>
>>> (We discussed this at length about two years ago, and, predictably,
>>> the discussion devolved into another argument that had little to do with
>>> the subject at hand.)
>>>
>> Can't beat a good bit of bike-shedding ... *eg*
>>
> Exactly. I spent hours googling, and I found that several people had
> worked on DSN/Specctra interfaces, and, as was also very predictable,
> they can be found in about six completely different and unrelated places
> on the net.
>
> This is really quite ridiculous.
>
> I have been a daily gEDA/PCB user for fourteen years, in both personal
> and professional contexts. Over that time, the projects have become so
> incoherent and incohesive (is that even a word?) that even I, having
> used it every day for nearly a decade and a half, cannot figure out
> what's going on. It seems that there is no "one true" gEDA or PCB!
>
> Note well that I'm not sitting here complaining that nobody will step
> up and do a ton of work to improve something that's free. It'd just be
> really nice if people would just stop creating these additional
> repositories with patches and fixes and plugins and blah blah blah that
> will (inexplicably!) never get merged into the main package, instead
> there are half a dozen completely different packages, being worked on by
> different people with different divergent feature sets, that all claim
> to be gEDA or PCB.
>
> Is it really impossible for people to work TOGETHER on this project?
>
> -Dave
>
>
Hi Dave,
AFAICT, the freerouting web app ceased to exist thanks to Big EDA
bullying the developer into retirement and off the internet
(http://www.freerouting.net/).
There are a couple of github repositories with the code (I recall
written in java, https://github.com/nikropht/FreeRouting and
https://github.com/32bitmicro/Freerouting), each with a bunch of forks,
some with development continuing ... YMMV.
I'm willing to put effort into merging a DSN exporter (bit-rotting in a
topic branch) into the master branch main stream pcb repository if, and
only if, said exporter gets tested and feedback is shared (this requires
active involvement with patches or at least bug reports on Launchpad).
On other thing that is needed, if this is to become a FOSS success
story, is testing one of the github freerouter repositories.
I forked both Freerouting repositories mentioned above, but have to
admit that I have little or no java coding skills (sorry, no fu).
So this will require testing and working TOGETHER with another developer
with java coding skills.
Are you up for the challenge ?
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
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