Re: gEDA-user: New branch of PCB

[Stephen Ecob <silicon.on.inspiration@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Jan Martinek <honza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/15/2010 09:24 PM, Stephen Ecob wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak
>> <knaak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Stephen Ecob wrote:
>>>
>>>> Motivation
>>>> Having laid out a couple of boards with PCB 20091103 I became aware of
>>>> some bugs in the autorouter that made the job difficult:
>>>
>>> Are you talking about the default auto router. Or is this about the
>>> shiny,
>>> new "toporouter"?
>>
>> I'm talking about the default auto router.
>>
>
> Oh, that's a pity. But are there any common parts of source code which both
> routers share? I mean - if you fix some bug in default auto router, will
> that fix the same bug in toporouter?

No, the toporouter is completely separate code.

> I suppose that if Anthony Blake finishes his toporouter someday, all effort
> for improvement the default autorouter may be pointless. Toporouter's
> algorithm is really better, but there are "failed asserts" sometimes.

Yes, a finished toporouter will make the default autorouter obsolete -
but unfortunately deveopment of the toporouter seems to have stalled.
While the toporouter is unfinished the default auto router of 2008 is
generally the best option for production boards.


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