Reviving AppStream and current status

[Matthias Klumpp]

Hi!
I think you are looking for this:
http://gitorious.org/appstream/appstream-core/blobs/master/docs/appdata.xsd
Cheers,
    Matthias
Am 17.11.2012 22:55 schrieb "Olivier Berger" <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu
>:

> Hi.
>
> I'm digging the archives of the list and couldn't spot an obvious
> reference for the App-data.xml specs.
>
> Anyone to provide a pointer to the "specification" for the
> format/content/semantics of these application metadata files ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vincent Untz <vuntz at gnome.org> writes:
>
> >
> > Application metadata
> > ====================
> >
> > openSUSE is now generating an appdata.xml file for its repo. You can
> > find an example here:
> >
> http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/appdata.xml.gz
> >
> > It'd be great to have other distros generate this too so everyone can
> > play with the PackageKit backend in the software center (although Debian
> > and Ubuntu can still use the apt backend).
> >
> > That being said, in the short term, it can already be used on other
> > distro, or even better, we can use distromatch to transform it to work
> > for other distros.
> >
> > There's also a tarball with icons:
> >
> http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/app-icons.tar.gz
> > It's not used by the software center yet; the way files are arranged
> > inside this tarball is pretty much still to be defined.
> >
>
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