Status of Cinnamon Open Source client libraries

Active or static libraries

Library	Status	Description
CDCplus	Active	Client starter application
CDCplusLib	Active	Open Source client GUI components.
ChildSelector	Active	Command-line program to be called from editors to expose Cinnamon functionality like child selection (and potentially others).
CinnamonAEResources	Active	Components to be used in CinnamonAsynchronousEngine.
CinnamonAsynchronousEngine	Active	Asynchronous, highly configurable and customizable framework to run code on the server that does things (not easy to be more specific). Used for publication, thumbnail generation, data extraction, translation management and more.
ContentAwareness	Active	Implementation of link management in XML and other modular formats.
Ginger	Active	Open Source object model implementation of Cinnamon data model. Based on VisualBasic and in some fields a bit bloated, but widely used. Should be replaced with something lighter based on C# so it can run on Mono / Linux.
NativeApiServerConnector	Active	Standard communication layer with API interface.
Praties	Semi-Active	Open Source client GUI and Business Logic components (like controls, context functions etc.). It is maintained as a major part of the Desktop Client, but will be gradually replaced with CDCplusLib, based on C# instead of VisualBasic.
Xylopia	Static	Still used in client, but should be replaced by something else (preferrably, an existing Open Source library we can integrate for simple XML editing).

Obsolete libraries

NOTE: These libraries were moved to a folder named _legacy.

Library	Status	Description
CinnamonDesktopClient	Obsolete	Legacy implementation of what CDCplus does now.
ClientCustomizationTemplate	Obsolete	Was meant as a template for building custom libraries - but is totally irrelevant.
CmnContent	Obsolete	Legacy content intelligence implementation, no longer used or supported. Use ContentAwareness instead.
CmnContentAdobeFrameMaker	Obsolete	Based on CmnContent, no longer used or supported.
CmnContentMsOffice	Obsolete	Based on CmnContent, no longer used or supported.
CmnContentOpenDocument	Obsolete	Based on CmnContent, no longer used or supported.
CmnInterfaces	Obsolete	Some outdated interfaces - not used anywhere.
CmnVisualizers	Obsolete	Not quite sure what this was supposed to be.
Kurkuma	Obsolete	Legacy implementation of what NativeApiServerConnector does now.
Scheduler	Obsolete	Legacy scheduler that was written in VisualBasic and didn't run on Mono. No longer used or supported. Use CinnamonAsynchronousEngine instead.