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[Vesa Solonen <vsolonen@...>]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Werner Almesberger wrote:

> Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> > I question whether we could ever muster enough resources to come even
> > close to what freerouter offers NOW.
>
> How about integrating Freerouter into the KiCad codebase then ?

It's at most up to Alfons to decide. See:

http://www.freerouting.net/fen/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7&start=0

I sent him email somewhere last year, but never got any answer. Naturally 
Java to C++ conversion would be quite a task too if we don't want to 
depend on Java also, I guess.

> The whole "streaming java" setup seems rather awkward. I spent
> about a day unsuccessfully trying to get it to work. I suppose
> others may have had similar experiences.

Yeah. I had to hack a bit too to make local jar running from web cache... 
Anyway it is a fine piece of software and I must applaud Alfons for making 
it available. I wouldn't want to see it getting "lost" for whatever 
reasons and that's why opening would make sense sometime.

Then there is gEDA toporouter project, it has some quite nice ideas and 
some even fly already. There has been some more patches this year on the 
list.

http://www.wand.net.nz/~amb33/toporouter

Last, but not least ideas from Kicadocaml should be considered too.

http://code.google.com/p/kicadocaml

-Vesa