On Friday 29 July 2005 22:27, Stuart Brorson wrote: >I wrote a utility called "garchive" which is supposed to do this for >you for gschem/gaf. It tries to figure out your symbol search path >& then creates a .tar.gz archive of all your symbols & other design >files.
You might be aware that the name 'garchive' is in previous useage, by the gnome team. Its part of an admin tool that automates the downloading and building of a complete gnome installation. Its also been used in the similarly functioning kde build tool, konstruct. >It doesn't actually read your Guile configuration, so it might miss > a sym file here or there, particularly if your setup is quirky or > non-standard. Also, it doesn't deal with pcb files, so you're SOL > as far as archiving PCB stuff goes. Nonetheless, it tries to do > what you want it to do. > >Garchive is distributed along with the rest of gEDA/gaf. Try it out > & let me know if it works for you! > >Stuart > >> Hi, >> To use a directory structure to work with gEDA and store >> the different kind of files gEDA generate (pcb files, symbols, >> footprints,models, etc) seems a smart way to work, but to make the >> work easier I'l like to know if there is a way of extract the >> footprints and symbols (the .sym and footprint element) from a >> schematic file and copy that elements to some local directory with >> the purpose of be able to share your job with all the symbols and >> footprints included, that way assuring the person who's looking >> your schematics sees the same thing you see ? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Olgierd -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
