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[Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx>]

On 31 July 2015 at 08:47, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 should be removed from KiCad since it is no longer active.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.

I had a look: the freeroute program still exists, but it is now a GNU
licenced code out there ( https://github.com/nikropht/FreeRouting ) -
it is possible to run as standalone on your computer.

>From what it looks like, there was an online version available that
doesn't exist anymore, so the button 'Export ... and launch Freeroute'
should probably be removed (or the FreeRouting program hacked so that
it can run as a daemon listening on a socket for a local network
service).

So for Kicad
  - remove the middle button in the Free-Route dialog that sends it to
the external router
 - The menu button 'Freeroute' should be renamed 'External routing
(Specctra export)' or something, so that it is more neutral.

-h
> 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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