X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 07:51:25 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu cc: pcb-rnd AT list DOT repo DOT hu Subject: [geda-user] [pcb-rnd] toporouter obsolesce - last call Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com 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