Description of the metainfo.yml syntax

The name is the folder name. The fancyname is the project name used in CMake.

Each group must contain one and only one library with the group_info block. If more are defined, the behavior is unknown.

Be sure to set public_lib to true, or the library will be ignored. Most of the other keys are optionals. See below for a simpler example.

All possible keys.

description: Library doing X and Y
fancyname: The FancyName # optional, else replaced by the `project()` value of the `CMakeLists.txt`
repo_id: klib  # optional, defaults to base name of directory with the metainfo.yaml file
maintainer: ochurlaud  # optional, replaced by The KDE Community
group: frameworks # optional
subgroup: tier 1 # optional, a group must be defined
type: functional  # optional
logo: relative/path/to/logo.png # Used only if not part of a group, defaults to logo.png if present
platforms:  # optional, name accepted: all, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, macOS, Android
    - name: Linux
      note: Functional only with running BlueZ 5 # optional
public_lib: true  # if not defined, the library is ignored
public_source_dirs:  # optional, default to src, must be a list
  - src1
  - src2
public_doc_dir: docs  # optional, default to docs
public_example_dirs: examples  # optional, default to examples, must be a list
 
portingAid: true/false  # optional, default to false
deprecated: true/false  # optional, default to false
libraries: KF5::MyLib  # optional
 
libraries:  # optional
  - qmake: BluezQt
    cmake: KF5::BluezQt
    license: LGPL-2.1-only OR LGPL-3.0-only # optional, SPDX expression that states outbound license of library
cmakename: KF5BluezQt  # optional
 
irc: kde  # optional, overwrite group field, if both not defined, default to kde-devel
mailinglist: mylib-dev  # optional, overwrite group field, if both not defined, default to kde-devel
 
group_info: # optional, only once per group
  name: frameworks # optional, else the name is defined by the 'group' key above.
  fancyname: The KDE Frameworks
  maintainer: dfaure
  irc: kde-devel
  mailinglist: kde-core-devel
  platforms:
    - Linux
    - Windows (partial)
    - macOS (partial)
  description: Providing everything from simple utility classes to ..
  logo: relative/path/to/logo.png # optional, defaults to logo.png if present
  long_description: # optional, one item per paragraph, html authorized
    - The KDE Frameworks build on the <a href="https://www.qt.io">Qt
      framework</a>, providing everything from simple utility classes (such as
      those in KCoreAddons) to integrated solutions for common requirements of
      desktop applications (such as KNewStuff, for fetching downloadable add-on
      content in an application, or the powerful KIO multi-protocol file access
      framework).
    - ....
  subgroups: # every subgroup must be declared here or will be ignored
    - name: Tier 1
      description: Tier 1 frameworks depend only on Qt (and possibly a small number of other third-party libraries), so can easily be used by an Qt-based project.
    - name: Tier 2
      description: Tier 2 frameworks additionally depend on tier 1 frameworks, but still have easily manageable dependencies.
    - ..

Simple example 1

In this case, the library is not part of a group, and the source is in src. If there is no logo, a default one is used.

description: Library doing X
maintainer: ochurlaud
public_lib: true
logo: libX.png

Simple example 2

In this case, the libraries X and Y are part of the same group XY, and the source is in src.

libX

description: Library doing X
maintainer: ochurlaud
public_lib: true
platforms:
  - name: Linux
  - name: Windows
    note: doesn't work with Windows10
group: XY
 
group_info:
  fancyname: XY Libraries
  maintainer: arandomguy
  platforms:
    - Linux
    - Windows (partial)
  description: XY provides ...
  logo: logo_XY.png
  long_description:
    - XY does this and this
    - If you want to contribute please write to ...

libY

description: Library doing Y
maintainer: otherrandomguy
public_lib: true
platforms:
  - name: Linux
group: XY