%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ rest-&rest-version; rest Introduction to rest The rest package contains a library that was designed to make it easier to access web services that claim to be "RESTful". It includes convenience wrappers for libsoup and libxml to ease remote use of the RESTful API. &lfs90_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &rest-md5sum; Download size: &rest-size; Estimated disk space required: &rest-buildsize; Estimated build time: &rest-time; rest Dependencies Required and Recommended Optional and LCOV User Notes: Installation of rest Install rest by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --with-ca-certificates=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt && make To test the results, issue: make check. The flickr test will fail due to Public API changes on their site. The OAuth tests will fail because the website that it uses to test connectivity via OAuth no longer exists. Now, as the root user: make install Command Explanations --with-ca-certificates=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt: This switch sets the location of the BLFS certificate authority bundle. Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories None librest-0.7.so and librest-extras-0.7.so /usr/include/rest-0.7 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/rest-0.7 Short Descriptions librest-0.7.so contains the RESTful Web API Query functions. librest-0.7.so librest-extras-0.7.so contains extra RESTful Web API Query functions. librest-extras-0.7.so