Meson is a far more robust build framework, compared to autotools. This
greatly simplifies adding new features, since it's far easier to
maintain a set of meson.build files vs the autotools mishmash.
DEPRECATION NOTICE: Autotools based build is deprecated and will be
removed in the future.
In order to comply with recent privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA, the
bug report utility has been updated to remove personally identifiable
information such as device serial number and system hostname from the
output.
In addition, this change also adds a PRIVACY.md file which describes how
this project handles data, in compliance with GDPR/CCPA. Documentation
is updated to link to the privacy document as well.
Prior to this change, the Git version was only getting generated when
the call was made to autoreconf. This was resulting in stale version
info.
This change, by contrast, generates the build info at the call to make.
While this doesn't completely eliminate the stale version issue, it's
easier to work around, by simply running `make clean`, `make`.
This change adds a utility that generates some output that can be used
to figure out what the user system is, specifically, the versions of the
following:
* libusb
* hidapi (if available)
* kernel
* device info
These parameters can be used to determine if the user is running some
non-standard environment, and make it easier to track down bugs.
nirenjan