The router began as a port of FreeRouting and has grown its own engine
(negotiated congestion, tree nets, exact checks, axis escapes), and
'freeroute' was one letter from the project it no longer follows. The
package, module and command are now rpmroute; the freeroute command stays
as an alias, and the RPMROUTE / RPMROUTE_ORACLE_JAVA variables fall back
to the old FREEROUTE names. Version 2026.10.07. Routing is unchanged: a
PCBench board routes to a byte-identical session either way.
Pure-Python PCB autorouter replacing the freerouting.jar step in kicad-mcp.
Contract is Specctra DSN in, SES out — a drop-in for the JAR so the toolchain
needs no JVM. Includes pyproject (uv/ruff/pytest, src-layout) and a porting
plan seeded for study of the upstream FreeRouting Java source.
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