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diff --git a/contrib/README.contrib b/contrib/README.contrib new file mode 100644 index 000000000..77ea66baa --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/README.contrib @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +The contrib/ subdirectory for xine-lib contains the code for libraries +that are not developed by the xine project, but are rather imported +from other projects. + +These libraries are imported either because they need to be patched to +fix bugs not yet fixed in any released version, to make it simpler for +the users to have the library installed, or because there's no proper +release done by that project. + +This README file should explain how to upgrade the code present in the +contrib/ directory with new sources from the development project. + +libxdg-basedir +-------------- + +The libxdg-basedir project is a (really) small library used to provide +the proper access to XDG directories as described by the XDG Base +Directory Specification (0.6 version). + +The library can be found at +https://n.ethz.ch/student/nevillm/download/libxdg-basedir/ , and it's +imported in xine-lib as it's far from commonly found on distributions. |