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On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Stefan Salewski wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 09:14 -0700, Frank Miles (fpm AT u DOT washington DOT edu)
> [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> kicad does not seem as dead as you suggest.  Recent versions have
>> included some new semi-auto-routing capabilities that are pretty nice.
>> There's a youtube video out there showing some cool features ... look
>> for it.
>
> I guess you are refering to the push&shove router contributed by some
> CERN people? What I heard was that it took long to get integrated into
> the official release, maybe now it is. I have not the time to really
> follow KiCad development, but most seems to be small patches only. Is
> there progress with integration of the router of Alfons Wirtz? I have
> seen at ohloh.org that they now have reduced the lines of code from
> nearly one million to about 600k. It is large still.

That's it.  I'm very new to KiCad, so don't know anything about the Wirtz
autorouter.  It's patches may be small, but (thinking about how the same
might be said of various geda executables) that in itself isn't necessarily
a bad sign.

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