This eliminates some overhead, because the compiler doesn't need to
consider these functions throwing.

Prepare for the plugin interface.

Prepare to make this a new plugin API, for example to use a SMB share
for the music_directory.

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.

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.