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Re: ancient autorouter code

 

I'm confused, are we talking about the freerouting.net link or KiCad's
internal autorouter?  If the link to freerouting.net is still active, it
should be removed from KiCad since it is no longer active.  I thought
this was removed already.

On 7/31/2015 10:51 AM, Al Thomason wrote:
> Is this still the link to: http://www.freerouting.net/  ?
> 
> If so, there was some CnD letters as well as perhaps other problems for the
> author - in the end, this resource has been taken off-line.  See above URL
> for more details.
> 
> -al-
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kicad-developers
> [mailto:kicad-developers-bounces+thomason.al=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Wayne Stambaugh
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 5:36 AM
> To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] ancient autorouter code
> 
> I haven't used the autorouter in a long time but it should still function
> properly despite it's limited usefulness.  I see no reason to remove it for
> the stable release unless it is completely broken.  For some really simple
> boards it still may be useful.
> 
> On 7/30/2015 8:52 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>> As long as I can remember the docs have mentioned a built-in autorouter.
>> For just as long I've never been aware of anyone using it or improving 
>> the code. Could we kill this before a stable release?
>>
>> - Cirilo
> 
> 
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