This is the latest release from Cadsoft, before they were bought by
Autocad. Autocad has released 8.x, but
- it requires reworking the Nix expression (different packaging)
- the paid license version requires a monthly subscription fee, you never
"own" the software (AFAICT).
Due to the licensing change in 8.x, I think keeping Eagle 7.x around is
a good idea.
CC @bjornfor:
Version 6.5.0 has disappeared from Cadsoft's FTP site. This is the
closest version that's still available. Not extensively tested, but
works fine here.
Current version is 7.3.0. I leave that to someone more interested.
And name the desktop file "eagle.desktop", not "Eagle.desktop". The user
facing application name is still "Eagle"; it has nothing to do with the
name of the desktop file.
Eagle is a schematic capture and PCB layout program from CadSoft. This
is proprietary software; CadSoft provide a self-extracting shell script
with embedded tarball of the prebuilt application.
Add the latest Eagle version, 6.4.0.
I've added a small LD_PRELOAD library that redirects operations on the
license file from <eagle_install_path>/bin/eagle.key to
$HOME/.eagle.key. Without this Eagle will never get past the license
dialog (because you cannot write to the nix store).
Eagle also has issues copying its example projects to other locations;
it seems that it wants to preserve the read-only permissions from the
source over to the destination. Because of this it cannot complete the
copy operation because it cannot write the project files into to the
(read-only) project directory it just created. So wrap chmod by OR'ing
in the write-by-owner bit.
