Script loading
When you run liquidsoap for streaming, the command line has the following form:
$ liquidsoap script_or_expr_1 ... script_or_expr_NThis allows you to ask liquidsoap to load definition and settings from some scripts so that the become available when processing the next ones.
For example you can store your passwords by defined the variable
xxx in secret.liq, and then refer to that
variable in your main script main.liq. You would then run
liquidsoap secret.liq main.liq. If you ever need to
communicate main.liq there won’t be any risk of
divulgating your password.
When available, the variable liquidsoap.script.path
contains the path of the current script’s file and null
otherwise.
The pervasive script library
In fact, liquidsoap also implicitly loads scripts before those that
you specify on the command-line. These scripts are meant to contain
standard utilities. Liquidsoap finds them in
LIBDIR/liquidsoap/VERSION where LIBDIR
depends on your configuration (it is typically
/usr/local/lib or /usr/lib) and
VERSION is the version of liquidsoap (e.g.
0.3.8 or svn).
Currently, liquidsoap loads stdlib.liq from the
library directory, and this file includes some others. You can add
your personal standard library in that directory if you find it
useful.