On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Jan Martinek <ho...@dp.fce.vutbr.cz> wrote: > On 11/15/2010 09:24 PM, Stephen Ecob wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak >> <kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de> 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. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user