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| author | Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@gnome.org> | 2011-10-21 17:34:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@gnome.org> | 2011-10-21 17:34:45 +0300 |
| commit | 08bf0f46e386172e6ae90b2ff2d0455b973467dd (patch) | |
| tree | 11bd52828aacb29a05e0f3d8791e13960c232fa7 /README | |
| parent | 51f3eda257a3d0ab46872b3f2a7f720f6811f063 (diff) | |
| download | libosinfo-08bf0f46e386172e6ae90b2ff2d0455b973467dd.tar.gz | |
Improved README file
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@@ -1,10 +1,25 @@ -README +libosinfo +========= -Requirements: -libxml2-devel +libosinfo is a GObject based library API for managing information about +operating systems, hypervisors and the (virtual) hardware devices they can +support. It includes a database containing device metadata and provides APIs +to match/identify optimal devices for deploying an operating system on a +hypervisor. Via the magic of GObject Introspection, the API is available in all +common programming languages with demos for javascript (GJS/Seed) and python +(PyGObject). Also provided are Vala bindings. + +libosinfo is Free Software and licenced under LGPLv2+. + +Dependencies +============ + +- Required: + - gobject-2.0 + - gio-2.0 + - libxml-2.0 + +- Optional: + - gobject-introspection + - Vala (build-time only) -To build and test: -1. 'make lib' to build the library as bin/libosinfo.so -2. 'make test' to compile all the tests and place them in bin/ -3. Change LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the directory with libosinfo.so -4. Run each test in bin/. Will return 0 on successful completion.
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