Adding AppData files for frameworks

[Richard Hughes]

On 8 January 2016 at 14:23, Matthias Klumpp <k.matthias12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> We would only need a new component type in case we want to use it for
> e.g. filtering out only runtime components from the metadata pool. In
> that case, I would like to see an use-case for that (do we want to
> show the runtimes in an UI?

At the moment, yes.

> If so, why? (as this is just an implementation detail)),

We want to be able to live-update them in gnome-software.

> and also a sharp definition of what a
> "runtime" is, especially whether it turns out to be something xdg-app
> specific or rather be a component type that is useful for other
> purposes too.

I think runtime is a specific thing, it's a curated set of libraries
that exposes a specific API and ABI.

Richard.