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AppStream-Glib
==============
This library provides GObjects and helper methods to make it easy to read and
write AppStream metadata. It also provides a simple DOM implementation that
makes it easy to edit nodes and convert to and from the standardized XML
representation.
What this library allows you to do:
* Read and write compressed AppStream XML files
* Add and search for applications in an application store
* Get screenshot image data and release announcements
* Easily retrieve the best application data for the current locale
* Efficiently interface with more heavy-weight parsers like expat
For more information about what AppStream is, please see the wikie here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Getting Started
---------------
To install the libappstream-glib library you either need to install the
`libappstream-glib` package from your distributor, or you can build a local
copy. To do the latter just do:
dnf install automake autoconf libtool glib-devel
./autogen.sh
make
make install
More Information
----------------
If you want to actually generate metadata rather than just consuming it, you
probably want to be looking at: https://github.com/hughsie/createrepo_as or if
you're completely lost, GNOME Software is a GUI tool that uses this library to
implement a software center. See `src/plugins/gs-plugin-appstream.c` if you
want some more examples on using this library where speed and latency really
matter.
Hacking
-------
If you want a new feature, or have found a bug or a way to crash this library,
please report as much information as you can to the issue tracker:
https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/issues -- patches very welcome.
New functionality or crash fixes should include a test in `src/as-self-test.c`
to ensure we don't regress in the future. New functionality should also be
thread safe and also not leak *any* memory for success or failure cases.
License
----
LGPLv2+
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