* Simplifies the export declarations for module developers. While
MAPI III utilized a flexible key-value vector to eliminate positional
arguments in a header initializer, now the developer simply makes
a list of pointers to what they want to export for injection into
IRCd. Example:
mapi::header IRCD_MODULE
{
"mymod",
"My module adds a command, a hook, and a CLICAP",
&my_cmdtab,
&some_hook,
&clicaptab
};
* Distributes the handlers for items passed to the above vector.
Anyone can add a type-handler to the module system from anywhere in IRCd
(and other modules?) When your type is encountered a handler is called
providing the symbol name to read out of the module. Example in parser.cc:
mods::add_loader<Message>([]
(mod &loading, const std::string &symbol)
{
auto &msg(get<Message>(loading, symbol));
add_command(msg.name, msg);
});
* To benefit from the precompiled-header (PCH) it MUST provide "the first C token."
Advantages:
Never worry about the include stack again. Remember, this means one less thing
for random module developers, community people learning C++, and new developers
to deal with. It should reduce the learning curve and barrier for participation.
Disadvantages:
Makes overall compilation a bit slower, especially without any additional
work to improve it again. There are several opportunities, places where the
PCH is probably being ignored, etc that can be addressed.
* librb is no longer a separately configured subproject.
* charybdis is now a standalone directory with a binary.
* Include path layout now requires a directory ircd/ rb/ etc.
Charybdis requires C99 already, so it's high time we start using
stdbool. I've converted a few pieces of code already.
A lot of the old code that uses YES/NO should probably be updated too
because that's fucking hideous.
AC_LANG_PROGRAM needs to be quoted when used within AC_*_IFELSE:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-04/msg00017.html
This fixes the following warnings:
$ autoreconf
configure.ac:298: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:193: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2729: _AC_RUN_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:639: AS_IF is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2748: AC_RUN_IFELSE is expanded from...
configure.ac:298: the top level
configure.ac:593: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:193: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2661: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2678: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
configure.ac:593: the top level
...
configure.ac:309: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:193: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2729: _AC_RUN_IFELSE is expanded from...
../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:639: AS_IF is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2748: AC_RUN_IFELSE is expanded from...
configure.ac:309: the top level
...
Add two mechanism for avoiding name-collisions in a system-wide
installation of charybdis. The ssld and bandb daemons, intended to be
directly used by ircd and not the user, install into libexec when
--enable-fhs-paths is set. For binaries which are meant to be in PATH
(bindir), such as ircd and viconf, there is now an option
--with-program-prefix=progprefix inspired by automake. If the user
specifies --with-program-prefix=charybdis, the ircd binary is named
charybdisircd when installed.
Add support for saving the pidfile to a rundir and storing the ban
database in localstatedir instead of in sysconfdir. This is, again,
conditional on --enable-fhs-paths.
Fix(?) genssl.sh to always write created SSL key/certificate/dh
parameters to the sysconfdir specified during ./configure. The
previous behavior was to assume that the user ran genssl.sh after
ensuring that his current working directory was either sysconfdir or a
sibling directory of sysconfdir.
