Using Eagle on two systems, with library on USB stick

Am 06.03.2011 20:40, schrieb Garrick:

I use EAGLE on a desktop and a laptop for the same projects. A complication

happens when I edit a library part and I want the project on both systems to

update from the same library. The part in a project is linked to a library

at a certain path. If I copy the library to a USB stick and try to update

the library part in a project to the laptop, the EAGLE on the laptop doesn't

know to update from the library on the USB stick. It only updates from the

library in the original path.

 

Do I need to have libraries in exactly the same path names, and same drive

letters common to both systems to make a part update from the library it is

originally from? Is there a way to point it to "mylibrary.lib" on the USB

stick and update the part in the board and schematic?

Eagle use the first library if found in directories.

Change the order of the lbr directories in Options/Directory:

C:\Program\eagle\lbr;U:\lbr

U:\lbr;C:\Program\eagle\lbr

"U:" == USB stick

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Alfred Zaffran

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Am 06.03.2011 20:40, schrieb Garrick:

I use EAGLE on a desktop and a laptop for the same projects. A complication

happens when I edit a library part and I want the project on both systems to

update from the same library. The part in a project is linked to a library

at a certain path. If I copy the library to a USB stick and try to update

the library part in a project to the laptop, the EAGLE on the laptop doesn't

know to update from the library on the USB stick. It only updates from the

library in the original path.

 

Do I need to have libraries in exactly the same path names, and same drive

letters common to both systems to make a part update from the library it is

originally from? Is there a way to point it to "mylibrary.lib" on the USB

stick and update the part in the board and schematic?

Eagle use the first library if found in directories.

Change the order of the lbr directories in Options/Directory:

C:\Program\eagle\lbr;U:\lbr

U:\lbr;C:\Program\eagle\lbr

"U:" == USB stick

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Alfred Zaffran

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_____________________________________________________________

Alfred Zaffran              Support

CadSoft Computer GmbH       Hotline:   08635-698930

Pleidolfweg 15              FAX:       08635-698940

84568 Pleiskirchen          eMail: <alf@cadsoft.de>

                             Web:   <www.cadsoft.de>

Registergericht: Amtsgericht Traunstein HRB 5573

Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Ing. Klaus Schmidinger, Bodo Badnowitz

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Hi Alfred,

this is all well and good, if you only need to make the latest version of a library available on multiple computers.  But let's extend the usage scenario a bit and make editing of the same project on multiple computers/operating systems a requirement as well.  Let's say I want to be able to work on the same project on my desktop PC running Linux and on my laptop runing Win7 while I am traveling or something.  I have tried to find a good solution for this but so far to no avail.  The EPF file records the used libraries with absolute path and the windows sections record the opened file for editing in the same way.  Obviously the paths on both systems will be different.  I even tried to have 2 epf files (eagle_win.epf and eagle_lin.epf) with the corresponding paths and platform attributes, but Eagle insists on the project file to be called eagle.epf and not *.epf.  For a product designed to run on different platforms this is a rather serious shortcoming IMHO.  I guess I could write a bash/batch/perl script to be run every time I switch computers before I start Eagle, which will parse the project file and convert any found path based on search and replace or regex, but that seems to be rather cumbersome and inelegant.  Especially if Cadsoft gives me the option to install the software and use the same license on multiple computers (just not at the same time)...

Regards,

Todor

On 09/28/2011 03:33 PM, Todor Todorov wrote:

Hi Alfred,

 

this is all well and good, if you only need to make the latest version of a library available on multiple computers.  But let's extend the usage scenario a bit and make editing of the same project on multiple computers/operating systems a requirement as well.  Let's say I want to be able to work on the same project on my desktop PC running Linux and on my laptop runing Win7 while I am traveling or something.  I have tried to find a good solution for this but so far to no avail.  The EPF file records the used libraries with absolute path and the windows sections record the opened file for editing in the same way.  Obviously the paths on both systems will be different.  I even tried to have 2 epf files (eagle_win.epf and eagle_lin.epf) with the corresponding paths and platform attributes, but Eagle insists on the project file to be called eagle.epf and not *.epf.  For a product designed to run on different platforms this is a rather serious shortcoming IMHO.  I guess I could

write a bash/batch/perl script to be run every time I switch computers before I start Eagle, which will parse the project file and convert any found path based on search and replace or regex, but that seems to be rather cumbersome and inelegant.  Especially if Cadsoft gives me the option to install the software and use the same license on multiple computers (just not at the same time)...

 

Regards,

Todor

 

I use unison to sync directories. I have ssh setup on my master system

with failtoban to block ssh attacks. I do my remote log in with 1024 bit

public key file.

While on the road I sync after I make changes and before I edit on my

master system.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Unison can also be used to sync a usb drive sub directory to your

workstation and laptop. You then have 3 copies of data.

Paul R.

You miss my point.

I do know how to sync files between different machines, no matter if I do it by hand or with some utility or with a versioning system.  The problem is not how to share files between Liniux and Linux or between Windows and Windows, but rather how EAGLE handles project files from different operating systems.  If I create a project in Windows, this will not open correctly in Linux or Mac OS, just because the paths to libraries or opened files are different!  Please don't get me wrong, I like EAGLE very much, but for a multi-paltform tool in things interoperability it falls a bit short off the mark.