Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/10/05/14:56:43
On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 18:38 -0800, Britton Kerin
(britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> >
>
> I think pcb has defaults for these, and saves them in each file also
> as
> overrides. So they could be gotten from an existing pcb file. Or is
> making the router implement different parameters the hard part?
>
No, it is not hard. But at least for older gschem/gnetlist versions it
was not possible to transfer net attributes like "power" or "10mil"
direct to PCB. The example picture on my page already has traces of two
different widths, I think I added them manually to the netlist file --
can not really remember.
The real hard part is, that people really do not like autorouters
generally, and most really do not like curved traces. Anthony already
wrote that most people told him that. My feeling is, that this is very
true in the hobby area, and also for small companies doing simple
boards. And that would be the target audience for an open source router,
at least at the beginning. They seem to like push and shove much better.
So I have no real hope that more than about five people would use the
router, even if it would work fine. But I think I will continue working
on the router at some time again, it is not very difficult and it is
much fun.
[...]
> TIOBE showing Ruby still gaining
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
> I didn't mind it except it's error message are bad compared to perl
> (which
> desperately needs its smart error messages :).
> Carbon cycles are move valuable than silicon cycles, the Ruby
> implementation largely exists already, I think there is no reason to
> feel
> bad for not rewriting in any other language.
Interesting, there is some increase indeed for the last months. Ruby is
indeed still a nice language, and the ruby-gnome2 bindings are actively
developed again now.
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