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Subject:	[geda-user] [pcb-rnd] toporouter obsolesce - last call
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Hi all!

Pcb-rnd has two working auto-router mechanism at the moment and one 
planned:

  - the classic PCB autorouter plugin (together with the djopt plugin)

  - dsn export -> freerouting.net app -> dsn import (external autorouting)

  - planned: auto-complete network


I am considering the removal of the toporouter code, because:

  - at the moment it compiles but does not work properly

  - it's huge

  - it's unmaintained

  - as far as I remember it is not finished (it doesn't add vias?)

  - it's slightly buggy (e.g. it happily routes on the outline layer)

  - there's no sign anyone wants to finish or at least maintain it

  - it depends on a modified version of gts that needs to be shipped in the 
source distribution

  - as far as I see it doesn't have a menu item even in mainline (which 
suggests mainline doesn't consider it a stable feature to advertise - 
correct me if it is just a mistake in the menu file)


*************************************************************************
This is the LAST CALL: if you want to use toporouter in pcb-rnd, contact 
me in private.
*************************************************************************


The obscolesce process: I'd remove toporouter and gts from trunk - 
probably archiving the last compilable state in work/. If later on someone 
wants to maintain it or it gets finished/maintained in mainline, I will 
reconsider this decision and may move the source back in trunk/.


Regards,

Igor2

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