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:
For more information about what AppStream is, please see the wiki.
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
If you want to actually generate metadata rather than just consuming it, you
probably want to be looking at
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.
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 - 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.
LGPLv2+