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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 23/02/2014 15:35, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> On 2/22/2014 9:40 AM, Martin Janitschke wrote:
>> On 22.02.2014 14:26, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> I noticed there are a bunch of MSVC compiler bug reports.  Please
>>> add a comment that the MSVC compiler is no longer supported and tag
>>> the bug as wont fix to all bugs reports related to the MSVC
>>> compiler.  This decision was made by the lead developers well over
>>> a year ago and it will not be reopened any time soon.
>> Ok, they are closed now (some were quite old anyways and no visible
>> connection to the current state of the code).
>>
>> What about reports for KiCads autorouter?
>> This comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/991393/comments/4
>> suggests that the internal autorouter is deprecated, but yet still
>> accessible in recent builds without hints about its performance.
>>
>> Bye,
>> imp
> 
> I was not aware that the autorouter was deprecated.  I know there have
> been some fixes made to the autorouter over years but I'm not sure what
> they addressed.  JP will have more insight on this than I do.  If the
> board file was included in the bug report, please try duplicating the
> bug and tag it accordingly.  Otherwise, I would ask the person who filed
> the bug report to try to duplicated the bug.
> 
> Wayne

The autorouter is not exactly deprecated, but it is very poorly
maintained, because FreeRouter works infinitely better.

However, because it is sometimes used to evaluate the footprint
placement, I still fix crashes and bugs.

-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS