Support Lirc plugin drivers

[bengtmartensson]

A natural extension would be to support Lirc dynamically loaded drivers, "plugins". I have actually spent quite some time on this, contained in the branch lircdriver. There are massive problems, basically due to the bad design of the Lirc drivers, resulting (among other things) in loader problems. The C++ version works reasonably, while the Java bindings suffer from loader problems, and does not find symbols. Possibly it is a Java problem?

[bengtmartensson]

Closing; makes no sense.

Turns out that all of the candidates are either basically unsound (audio, ftdi, file), unavailable (at least for purchase as new: commandir, usb_uirt(?)), supported by the Linux kernel (iguana), or directly supported by HarcHardware and thus IrScrutinizer/JGirs (irtoy, Girs).

Furthermore, development on Lirc appears to have stopped. New plugins appear more and more unlikely.