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author | MatthiasKlumpp <MatthiasKlumpp@web> | 2014-04-21 07:41:22 -0700 |
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committer | www <iki-www@freedesktop.org> | 2014-04-21 07:41:22 -0700 |
commit | 7009318e810177c1cb8f7e517c504185ff784324 (patch) | |
tree | ca08303fdb252942e726d8294a7e5717310407ac /Distributions | |
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diff --git a/Distributions/AppStream/Software.mdwn b/Distributions/AppStream/Software.mdwn index ad27ecea..ef2d9044 100644 --- a/Distributions/AppStream/Software.mdwn +++ b/Distributions/AppStream/Software.mdwn @@ -1,21 +1,25 @@ # AppStream Software & Library -Utilities to generate, maintain and access the [[AppStream|Distributions/AppStream]] Xapian database. +<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 AppStream-Core? -AppStream-Core makes it easy to access application 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 applications. -The libappstream library can be used by a wide variety of programming languages (via GObject-Introspection). In combination with [[PackageKit|http://packagekit.org]] in can be used to build Software Centers. +## What is the AppStream software? -The AppStream utilities are **beta software** at time, and the API might change a lot during the development process. Please keep that in mind when using it! +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 [[here|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/releases/]] +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 application, as well as libappstream API docs can be found [[on the documentation pages|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/]]. +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. |