On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Stefan Salewski <[email protected]> wrote: > I must have missed a lot of that postings?
See pcjc2's thread on a futuristic interface. > You may be disappointed that no other people have continued working on > your great router -- I guess the reason is that many of us feel that we > are not smart enough to understand the internal working. Extending user > interface and adding new features may be not to hard, but finding > reasons for segfaults or bugs in the core code can be really hard, at > least too hard for me -- in this winter of code. I don't expect other people to help out. But I do find it rather discouraging the number of people (unfortunately a vocal majority) who are actively hostile towards anything that would threaten their job spending 100's of hours laying out straight line PCB's by hand. Why the fuck do people send me private email telling me that they don't use/trust autorouters, and thus it is pointless trying to improve an autorouter? The 70's called, and they want their manual tapeouts back. And yes, the bugs in the toporouter are nasty. Over the last few months I've spent well over 100 hours trying to fix the topological sketch -> curvilinear wiring exporter. I've tried so many fixes that didn't work in all cases, or introduced new bugs, until I finally nailed down what was going on. Along with the fact that no one is helping me, the rate at which I've been chopping and changing algorithms as I experiment with them is the reason I haven't documented anything yet. Now I've almost stabilized and verified the curvilinear export code, I'll start to document it. I'm doing things at my own pace, and I'll push when I'm ready. Best wishes, Anthony _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
