Re: gEDA-user: Bad news about gEDA's participation in GSoC 2009

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anthony Blake wrote:
> Stefan Salewski wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 15:25 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>>> By the way, when are the results of the 2008 projects expected to hit 
>>> main stream testing? The autorouter looked quite promising. What about 
>>> the project manager?
>> I hope the topological autorouter is still alive?
> 
> I've been pretty slack, and have not had much time to put into it, but 
> I'm not going to stop working on it (please keep hassling me for 
> progress!).

Any chance of committing what you have?  If nothing else it ups the bus 
number, but maybe it will help generate some more excitement about it.

> In the last few months I made the switch  to GNU GTS, and completed most 
> of the code which will handle SMT constraints and so on. I want to add 
> code to handle a few peculiar cases in a more general way (e.g., square 
> pins inside pads with a collinear edge). There is a small bug in GTS 
> which needs a fix for my code to compile. I sent a patch off to the 
> maintainer over a month ago, but haven't heard anything back yet, so I'm 
> not sure about what to do next there.
> 

I sent the GTS maintainer an email at least that long ago too with a few 
minor patches and promised some more if I knew the project was still 
alive.  I also heard nothing back.  I wonder if the maintainer could be 
persuaded to try recruiting some extra developers.  Stefan did that with 
gerbv and Julian really stepped up to the plate with it.

-Dan


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