wesnoth/wesnoth — pull request #338 by cbeck88 (2014-11-26 18:32:56+00:00)
Title: add plugins context, manager, create lua thread object

This collection of classes provides a framework whereby the engine
may provide scripting capabilities in any "context". A C++
function may declare a plugin context by providing a list of names
function objects, then may call "play_slice()" on this context to
transfer control to lua. A lua script may generate some arguments
and request to call some of these, then yield to the engine. C++
will run them until one of them signals an error, or that the
context is now invalid (using a boolean return value).

The intended semantics is that lua may only make requests
corresponding to the current context. As soon as a new context
is used (play_slice() is called again) the old context is invalid
from lua's point of view -- calling those functions is a lua
error but not undefined behavior. This should be the case even if
the old context has not been destroyed yet in C++, for instance
if a lua request resulted in a new context being created. There is
a system of locks in place to ensure that when old contexts are
invalidated, stale requests are discarded.

We also add the coroutine library to our lua base. This because
threads are run as coroutines, and writing them requires the use
of coroutine yield from the standard library.