Renew the updater branch

Now with some actual consensus on what the updater will do!

mmc_updater/src/StringUtils.h

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+#pragma once
+
+#include <string.h>
+#include <string>
+#include <sstream>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+template <class T>
+inline std::string intToStr(T i)
+{
+	std::stringstream stream;
+	stream << i;
+	return stream.str();
+}
+
+inline bool strToBool(const std::string& str)
+{
+	return str == "true" || atoi(str.c_str()) != 0;
+}
+
+/** Returns @p text if non-null or a pointer
+  * to an empty null-terminated string otherwise.
+  */
+inline const char* notNullString(const char* text)
+{
+	if (text)
+	{
+		return text;
+	}
+	else
+	{
+		return "";
+	}
+}
+
+inline bool endsWith(const std::string& str, const char* text)
+{
+	size_t length = strlen(text);
+	return str.find(text,str.size() - length) != std::string::npos;
+}
+
+inline bool startsWith(const std::string& str, const char* text)
+{
+	return str.find(text,0) == 0;
+}
+