		LIBSHAREDMIME README
		--------------------

This library is intended to be an alternative to the GPL version of 
the library written by freedesktop.org contributors, which I'm not
even sure if they are still disributing. As I couldn't find the source
after many hours of looking.


This library is licensed under the LGPL license so that anyone can use
it. Including software vendors that are maintaining a profitable
business through closed source. Which includes the author.


Somewhat more importantly for savvy developers is that this library has
no dependencies. Although the importance of which is mostly lost on
free software developers.


		INSTALL
		-------

All that should be required to install this is:

	make
	make install
	
Which will put 'libsharedmime1.so' into /usr/local/lib and 'mime-types.h'
into /usr/local/include.


		STATUS
		------

Currently the main functions to return mime-types are implemented, as
is support for the globbing and magic numbers. For lack of a better 
alternative the first 64K of the file is loaded for magic number matching.

No documentation has been written but all the functions are the same as
the GPL version of the library.

In the ./mls directory there is a tool that lists all the mime-types of
the files in the current directory. This is useful for testing the library.


		TODO
		----

- Fix the makefile to have proper dependency handling.
- Write a ./configure script.
- Write some docs.
- Finish the other API functions (what do they actually do?).
- Test some more. "Works for me".


		AUTHOR(S)
		---------

Matthew Allen <fret@memecode.com>
http://www.memecode.com

