X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-UW-Orig-Sender: fpm AT homer02 DOT u DOT washington DOT edu Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 15:12:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Frank Miles (fpm AT u DOT washington DOT edu) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] gEDA/gschem still alive? In-Reply-To: <1436376242.1405.24.camel@ssalewski.de> Message-ID: References: <1435510363 DOT 682 DOT 26 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <20150703030409 DOT 32398 DOT qmail AT stuge DOT se> <20150703191532 DOT GB21182 AT localhost DOT localdomain> <20150707160130 DOT GA18930 AT localhost DOT localdomain> <1FB0D727-9B89-4017-8FDE-7D9EEBE1589D AT sbcglobal DOT net> <1436291983 DOT 678 DOT 53 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <1436376242 DOT 1405 DOT 24 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LRH 1217 2009-02-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 6.1.0.2415318, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2015.7.8.220316 X-PMX-Server: mxout24.cac.washington.edu X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=X, Probability=10%, Report=' TO_IN_SUBJECT 0.5, HTML_00_01 0.05, HTML_00_10 0.05, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_1100_1199 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, NO_URI_HTTPS 0, REFERENCES 0, __ANY_URI 0, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ 0, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT 0, __CP_MEDIA_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __FORWARDED_MSG 0, __HAS_FROM 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __IN_REP_TO 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __REFERENCES 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE 0, __TO_IN_SUBJECT 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __TO_NO_NAME 0, __URI_NO_PATH 0, __URI_NO_WWW 0, __URI_NS , __USER_AGENT 0' Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Stefan Salewski wrote: > On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 09:14 -0700, Frank Miles (fpm AT u DOT washington DOT edu) > [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >> kicad does not seem as dead as you suggest. Recent versions have >> included some new semi-auto-routing capabilities that are pretty nice. >> There's a youtube video out there showing some cool features ... look >> for it. > > I guess you are refering to the push&shove router contributed by some > CERN people? What I heard was that it took long to get integrated into > the official release, maybe now it is. I have not the time to really > follow KiCad development, but most seems to be small patches only. Is > there progress with integration of the router of Alfons Wirtz? I have > seen at ohloh.org that they now have reduced the lines of code from > nearly one million to about 600k. It is large still. That's it. I'm very new to KiCad, so don't know anything about the Wirtz autorouter. It's patches may be small, but (thinking about how the same might be said of various geda executables) that in itself isn't necessarily a bad sign. -F