This can be used by script code for reliably storing Lua values without
having to build a custom serialization format.
The C++ code can also be used by other code modules that want to
serialize data. The new classes simply return a byte array with an
unspecified format.
At the moment this uses a plain JSON encoding but could be extended in
the future to include either compression or BSON encoding if necessary.
The format is future compatible by using a simple header to identify
different kinds of formats.
This is a system for storing arbitrary data in the config file and then
easily retrieving it later on. This has full Lua support for exposing
the available options in a custom UI and changing the values of the
options. This ported some of the existing command line options over to
the new system which is opt-in for the moment by using a mod_table flag.
This changes the pilot reading code to always use JSON files for storing
the pilot data. Old pilots are converted to the new format when FSO
starts and after that point only JSON pilots will be used.
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