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.
When the x52d daemon was originally implemented, the inih library was
not bundled with any major distribution, and had to be compiled from
source everytime. However, with recent distributions (starting with
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS), this is no longer an issue, and inih is available in
the distro package manager. As a result, there is no longer a need to
vendor the inih sources with thiis repository.
However, as a result of this change, third party packaging scripts such
as those on the AUR or other similar registries that directly query the
git repository will fail unless they update the dependencies.
BREAKING CHANGE: Packaging scripts (AUR, etc.) need dependency update
This change eliminates the dependency on rsync to copy the Doxygen
generated files, and instead falls back to using `cp -R -P`. Since the
generated HTML needs no special permissions, `cp` is more than
sufficient, and it's already installed on all Unix systems as a core
utility.
Prior to this change, the user needed to install inih as a dependency,
either from the distribution repositories, or from source. On some
platforms (notably macOS), inih is not available prepackaged, and must
be installed by the user. This tends to cause needless friction.
This change imports the ini.c and ini.h files from the upstream inih
repository into the X52 source tree. This will allow us to build the
repository on any system with the original set of dependencies, and not
have to force the user to install packages themselves.
This commit adds workflows to handle the continuous integration builds
as well as the CodeQL analysis on each push. This also adds a workflow
to create a release and upload the orig.tar.gz file when pushing a tag.
nirenjan