free/open source PCB autorouter software development

Copied from KiCAD-users mailing list. Hobbyists have long needed a free/open source PCB autorouter for their EDA tool suites. One is now in development. Please support this project. This is not my project but one I strongly believe is very good for EDA hobbyists. Certainly useful for KiCAD and maybe gEDA as well. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I'm working on a project here http://sourceforge.net/projects/qautorouter/ It is an auto-router that is written in C++ on Qt application framework, reads/writes specctra file format and uses a plug-in style of interface for the router engines. It is very alpha at this stage, I have much of the UI, file I/O, and the plug-in API operational. I am working on a "Simple Router" plug-in at the moment that is implementing a simplified version of the expanding box algorithm. The Simple Router will be used as a sort of template for debugging the plugin-api and as a template for developing more sophisticated plug-ins. Toporouter would be a good one. In any case, it would be great to get a few other people on-board, a developer or two that is quite proficient in C++ would be very helpful, some hands-on with Qt would help a lot too. Someone to look after the Windows(tm) and Mac OS-X build and release would be very helpful. Someone to help with packaging; windows installer, Mac OSX installer, and linux .deb, .rpm packages would be helpful as well. If you're interested, please just send me a little about what you can contribute, and your sourceforge id. Kind Regards, Mike Sharkey