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["Marco Serantoni" <marco.serantoni@...>]

> > Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> > > I question whether we could ever muster enough resources to come even
> > > close to what freerouter offers NOW.

> > 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
> 

Someone has taken a look to the A* ALGORITHM (http://www.ddj.com/184408202?pgno=1 ) ? .. indeed has 20 years.. 
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Marco