Major refactoring (big thanks to OldCoder) enabling CLI and local storage and cleaner modpol/MT split

modpol.lua

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+-- ===================================================================
+-- /modpol.lua
+-- Modular Politics (modpol) core
+
+-- ===================================================================
+-- Basic tables
+
+-- Main API table
+modpol = {
+}
+
+-- Table for all active governance data
+modpol.orgs = {
+}
+
+-- Record of every state change should appear here
+modpol.ledger = {
+}
+
+-- ===================================================================
+-- Locate framework top-level directory.
+
+-- This function is intended for use under Linux and/or UNIX only.  It
+-- returns  a relative or  absolute path  for the framework  top-level
+-- directory without a trailing slash.
+
+local get_script_dir = function()
+    local  str = debug.getinfo (2, "S").source:sub (2)
+           str = str:match ("(.*/)") or "."
+           str = str:gsub ("/$", "", 1)
+    return str
+end
+
+-- Absolute or relative path to script directory.
+local  topdir = get_script_dir()
+modpol.topdir = topdir
+print (topdir)
+
+-- ===================================================================
+-- Load dependencies
+
+-- OldCoder utilities
+dofile (topdir .. "/ocutil.lua")
+
+-- ===================================================================
+-- Persistent storage
+-- must implement modpol.load_storage() and modpol.store_data()
+
+-- Select a storage method
+-- Works with CLI:
+dofile (topdir .. "/storage-local.lua")
+-- Works with Minetest 5:
+-- dofile (topdir .. "/storage-mod_storage.lua")
+
+-- If available, load persistent storage into active tables
+modpol.load_storage()
+
+-- ===================================================================
+-- ModPol core features
+
+dofile (topdir .. "/users.lua")
+dofile (topdir .. "/orgs.lua")
+dofile (topdir .. "/interactions.lua")
+-- messaging functions
+
+-- ===================================================================
+-- Final checks
+
+-- create instance if not present
+if (modpol.orgs["instance"] == nil) then
+   modpol.add_org("instance", modpol.list_users())
+end
+
+ocutil.log ("modpol loaded")
+
+-- ===================================================================
+-- End of file.