[PATCH] xdgmime: Add autotools-based build system.

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Tue Oct 25 02:32:25 PDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 09:49 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> Just some more info about the idea behind this. Apparently, there is no
> standard library for accessing the database provided by shared-mime-info. So
> with xdgmime seeming like the "reference" implementation, it would be nice to
> have an actual release tarball that people can use.
> 
> I am willing to help out with this, though I don't have a freedesktop.org
> account and cannot commit (or upload release tarballs) myself.

xdgmime is meant to be copy/pasted, or reimplemented. It doesn't make
sense for it to be a library, so it doesn't make sense for it to have
releases.

Cheers



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