Re: gEDA-user: design pack

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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