Hi!  Not too worry!  I am not going to despair!  I love KiCAD and use it every 
day making vintage/classic homebrew computer PCBs.  I've made about a dozen ECB 
and S-100 boards and recommend KiCAD every chance I get!

I did get a chance to correspond by email with the author of the topological 
autorouter project.  He said the source code is available in the in the git 
repository for gEDA's PCB, on gpleda.org so it is available for inspection if 
people would like to review it.

He mentioned the topological autorouter code would require a lot of hacking to 
get into a usable shape.  The good news is the base technology code is 
available if the KiCAD authors would like to consider it for inclusion.  I do 
not know how much effort would be required for integration but it sounds 
substantial.

Please keep up the good works!  Thanks and have a nice day!

Andrew Lynch

--- In [email protected], Donald H Locker <dhloc...@...> wrote:
>
> Don't despair.  (OK, you can despair, but don't give up - yet)
> 
> Topological routing is a technology, not a product!  The WAND link that you 
> discovered, Andrew, is an independent implementation of that technology.  It 
> is worth checking where they are going; it won't cost you the $5900 (or 
> whatever) of the TopoR product.
> 
> Donald.
> 
[snip]

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