* share/luaintf/http.lua: Equivalent of the legacy modules/control/http/
module. (The new module takes 272 lines of Lua, instead of 5475 lines for
the old one.) Functionality is basically the same except for CGI support
which is missing.
* share/http-lua/: The HTML files using the new <?vlc [lua code] ?> syntax.
* modules/misc/lua/: Add Lua bindings for a few VLC function, the most
important being the HTTPd high level functions, ACLs, stat and opendir.
The Lua code still needs to be cleaned up a bit.
Two things led me to add this new type of Lua modules:
* Most interfaces duplicate code from one another (rc and telnet both deal
with sockets, rc and hotkeys duplicate VLC interfacing code)
* It's easier to code in Lua than in C (for high level stuff)
(* Users can code their own module easily, all they need is a text editor.)
Most of the changes in modules/misc/ are Lua wrappers for different C APIs
in VLC. I'd say that 90% of those wrappers won't change, the other 10% might
need small changes (mostly to simplify the C code).
The VLC Lua "interface" module will look for lua scripts in the
*share*/luaintf/ directory. Files in *share*/luaintf/modules/ are lua modules
which can be used by multiple VLC Lua modules (using require "modulename").
This commit includes 4 Lua interface modules:
* dummy.lua: the default module. Prints error messages and quits.
* rc.lua: equivalent to the legacy rc.c module. Also includes a bunch of
new features (+ multiple socket connections at a time work!). See file for
more details.
* telnet.lua: equivalent to the legacy telnet.c module. See file for more
details.
* hotkeys.lua: a rewrite of the hotkey handling module. This module is still
experimental. I'll need to change VLC core hotkeys stuff to make it work
like I want (ie: 1 hotkey triggers 1 action instead of the current 1 action
can have 1 hotkey). This version executes 3 dummy actions when keys 'q',
'w' or 'x' are pressed.
What's left to do:
* Port the http interface plugin to this framework (at least for the
macros/rpn part ... using <?vlc some lua code ?> à la PHP would be way
easier than what we currently have).
* Finish work on the hotkeys module.
* Code a real telnet/rc module with autocompletion and all the cool features
usually found in a telnet/terminal interface.
* Trash the legacy C modules.
Stuff to test (which I can't test myself):
* Win32 and Mac OS X specific changes to Makefile.am
* Console interface under Win32. I expect it not to work.
Other stuff included in this changeset are:
* Code cleanup (I'm sure that it's still possible to simplify some of the old lua bindings code).
* That's pretty much it in fact :/
Uses builtin AUTHORS THANKS and COPYING files on every platform
Don't ship AUTHORS.txt and THANKS.txt on windows packages
COPYING.txt is kept since it's used in the nsis installer
Only show authors' name instead of the full AUTHORS file
Removes an empty line in THANKS to make it easier to parse without using endless pipes
Rémi Denis-Courmont