The new class Path only holds a string pointer without being
responsible for allocation/deallocation.  The FileSystem.hxx library
accepts Path arguments instead of AllocatedPath, to avoid forcing
callers to allocate another string object.

Prepare to migrate away from GLib.  Currently, we're still using GLib
as a backend.

Use only ConfigData.hxx in plugin sources to reduce header
dependencies.

Replaces GLib's GError.

Look up top-level config options by enum (= integer), not by name
string.

The new struct ConfigOption is the compile-time description, and the
global array "config_params" contains the actual values.

The new block overrides the "db_file" setting, and allows configuring
any database plugin.

GLib 2.16 was released more than 4 years ago.  Let's remove some cruft
from the glib_compat.h header, and avoid new cruft to it.

Make sure we get a UTF-8 encoded string.

No writers.

Better error messages.

config_get_path() was somewhat flawed, because it pretended to be a
function, when it really had a side effect.  The second flaw was that
it did not return the parser error, instead it aborted the whole
process, which is bad style.  The new function returns a duplicated
(modified) string that must be freed by the caller, and returns a
GError on failure.

No caller needs to write.

config_add_block_param() cannot fail, which makes it easier to use.

Reduce indent.

This patch seems a bit ugly, maybe it would be a bit cleaner with gotos.