The patch adds the possibility to escape curly braces within parameter strings
and introduces several new functions that can be used for writing parameters.
For writing, the structure pa_message_params, which is a wrapper for pa_strbuf
has been created. Following new write functions are available:
pa_message_params_new() - creates a new pa_message_params structure
pa_message_params_free() - frees a pa_message_params structure
pa_message_param_to_string_free() - converts a pa_message_param to string and
frees the structure
pa_message_params_begin_list() - starts a list
pa_message_params_end_list() - ends a list
pa_message_params_write_string() - writes a string to a pa_message_params structure
pa_message_params_write_raw() - writes a raw string to a pa_message_params structure
For string parameters that contain curly braces or backslashes, those characters
will be escaped when using pa_message_params_write_string(), while write_raw() will
put the string into the buffer without any changes.
For reading, pa_message_params_read_string() reverts the changes that
pa_message_params_write_string() might have introduced.
The patch also adds more restrictions on the object path name. Now only
alphanumeric characters and one of "_", ".", "-" and "/" are allowed.
The path name may not end with a / or contain a double slash. If the user
specifies a trailing / when sending a message, it will be silently removed.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/51>
libpulsecore is not supposed to depend on the client library.
Removing the dependency caused build failures, which are fixed by adding
more stuff to libpulsecommon.
The various software volume implementations were being built as part of
libpulsecommon for some reason. These should only ever be used in the
daemon, so they should be in libpulsecore.
Brings things in line with the autotools build, and adds ALSA mixer
paths and profile-sets into the meson build system as well.
The module installation path is also now customisable.
This is a working implementation of a build with meson. The server,
utils, and most modules build with this, and it is possible to run from
a build tree and play/capture audio on ALSA devices.
There are a number of FIXMEs, of course, and a number of features that
need to be enabled (modules, dependencies, installation, etc.), but this
should provide everything we need to get there relatively quickly.
To use this, install meson (distro package, or mesonbuild.com) and run:
$ cd <pulseaudio src dir>
$ meson <builddir>
$ ninja -C <builddir>
