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diff --git a/libraries/katabasis/README.md b/libraries/katabasis/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a4dc0994 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/katabasis/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +# Katabasis - MS-flavoerd OAuth for Qt, derived from the O2 library + +This library's sole purpose is to make interacting with MSA and various MSA and XBox authenticated services less painful. + +It may be possible to backport some of the changes to O2 in the future, but for the sake of going fast, all compatibility concerns have been ignored. + +[You can find the original library's git repository here.](https://github.com/pipacs/o2) + +Notes to contributors: + + * Please follow the coding style of the existing source, where reasonable + * Code contributions are released under Simplified BSD License, as specified in LICENSE. Do not contribute if this license does not suit your code + * If you are interested in working on this, come to the MultiMC Discord server and talk first + +## Installation + +Clone the Github repository, integrate the it into your CMake build system. + +The library is static only, dynamic linking and system-wide installation are out of scope and undesirable. + +## Usage + +At this stage, don't, unless you want to help with the library itself. + +This is an experimental fork of the O2 library and is undergoing a big design/architecture shift in order to support different features: + +* Multiple accounts +* Multi-stage authentication/authorization schemes +* Tighter control over token chains and their storage +* Talking to complex APIs and individually authorized microservices +* Token lifetime management, 'offline mode' and resilience in face of network failures +* Token and claims/entitlements validation +* Caching of some API results +* XBox magic +* Mojang magic +* Generally, magic that you would spend weeks on researching while getting confused by contradictory/incomplete documentation (if any is available) |