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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that there was integration done so that if you click the
autorouter button, it tells you in the status bar to put the jar in a
certain path, at which point the button works like it did before--actually,
a little better, because for some reason Java remembers the path and I
don't need to browse to the project every time I open it up.

I don't remember when this was but this was after the online service went
down.

Adam Wolf

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 should be removed from KiCad since it is no longer active.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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