On Freitag, 1. April 2016 21:54:10 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > Out of curiosity, how are the Appstream files accessed by tools such > as the various app centers? > I presume some kind of repository exists?
Nope, actually distributions extract the appstream data from the source code of each application and generate their own AppStream database. > If so, it may be worth pulling the information you need Boudhayan from > such a repository ( although the indexing process will undoubtedly > require either source code checkouts or compiled code, in which case > we'll probably have to use what the CI system has and pick a branch > group to represent - probably stable-kf5-qt5. More details on this > would be nice ) We could theoretically just tap into a distribution's AppStream database if that makes our lives easier, or just reuse their code to extract the data and create the database. _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
