[lime-dev] Lime now works on Chaos Calmer Was: linluaipluci and network.generate_host curse

Hi! DISCLAIMER: This mail contain sarcasm! Please don't take it as a personal insult but as an occasion to make fun of our own code and learn ;) This morning I was reviewing the branch that claimed to fix incompatibilities with Chaos Calmer, I even re-based it on top of current develop and gave it a name that fits more in our branch naming convention... After some testing and reading I decided to not merge it and to rewrite it from scratch instead. Some shitty part of our code that was network.generate_host instead of using the IP API was messing a lot with CIDR private internals, as Lua is so indulgent it didn't refused to run but our code was a real mess! In the new version of the library that part has been rewritten in C and to Lua it exposed just the API so our shitty code can't mess with the private stuff anymore, in this situation our reaction instead of fixing our shitty code has been to copy the old luci code before putting it inside our core and then (more reasonably) as a separate package... This morning I have decided to do what we should have done since the beginning: rewrite the shit code so we don't need the old library anymore, in this process I even discovered a Luci bug that Jow has already fixed (a missing dependency) I was tempted to delete the wrong branch but i decided that is a good idea to keep it some week more so we all have time to review and understand what we have done wrong https://github.com/libre-mesh/lime-packages/tree/sandbox/ip_legacy_module And here it goes the branch with the proper solution https://github.com/libre-mesh/lime-packages/tree/sandbox/hotfix/luci-lib-ip I have already tested it if no one oppose this I'll merge it in the following days. Cheers!