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Stefan Salewski wrote:

> The real hard part is, that people really do not like autorouters
> generally,

I don't like auto routers which fail on my boards ;-)
My biggest concern with what the toporouter could demonstrably do is that 
it is/was a game of all or nothing. You could not tell the router to 
restrict itself to some routes picked by me. And more troublesome, it was 
not able to play nice with tracks and vias already put in place by me. 
Both are hard deal breakers for me.


> and most really do not like curved traces.
> Anthony already wrote that most people told him that.

Well, I remember quite some "awsome!" shouts on the list every time the 
toporouter produced some new results.

We did not do a poll on whether people like or dislike topo router style 
traces back then. And Igors2 question was in no way a proper poll on 
peoples priorities for the direction of future development, either.


> 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.

My prophecy: If you can fix the two issues I mentioned above, people will 
start to test and love your toporouter. And soon curvy shaped tracks will 
be hallmark of boards done with geda.

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