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author | MatthiasKlumpp <MatthiasKlumpp@web> | 2015-11-04 15:20:16 -0800 |
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committer | www <iki-www@freedesktop.org> | 2015-11-04 15:20:16 -0800 |
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tree | 0b8794ac80512e3ecb75fd0d8f5e63fa5049dcae /Distributions/AppStream/Attic/Software.mdwn | |
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diff --git a/Distributions/AppStream/Attic/Software.mdwn b/Distributions/AppStream/Attic/Software.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ef2d9044 --- /dev/null +++ b/Distributions/AppStream/Attic/Software.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +# AppStream Software & Library + +<img src="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/images/appstream-logo.png" alt="AppStream Logo" /> + +Utilities to generate, maintain and access the [[AppStream|AppStream]] Xapian database. + + +## What is the AppStream software? + +LibAppStream makes it easy to access component information from the AppStream database over a nice GObject-based interface. +It uses a PackageKit plugin to automatically (re)generate the AppStream Xapian database of software components. +The libappstream library can be used with a wide variety of programming languages (via GObject-Introspection). In combination with [[PackageKit|http://packagekit.org]] in can be used to build software-centers. +The software also provides a command-line tool to query the contents of the AppStream database. +Additionally, the software will abstract some differences which exist between distributions in terms of providing metadata or handling things like screenshots, so you don't have to worry about this. + +The AppStream libappstream API might still change a little during the development process. We will notify about any API/ABI breaks in the release notes. (But please keep that in mind when using it!) + + +## Get it! + +You can download the latest release at [[freedesktop.org/software/appstream/releases/|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/releases/]] + +## Documentation + +Documentation for the AppStream project, including how to ship AppStream data with your distribution or upstream project, as well as libappstream API docs can be found [[on the documentation pages|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/]]. These pages also include API documentation for libappstream. |