Initial migration to Meson

[desiderantes]

This migration uses a baseline of Ubuntu 22.04 for deps.

• Pixmap embedding migrated to GResources.
• Redid Logo as SVG
• Simplified config fle generation

Missing:

• macOS packaging
• Windows Packaging

[desiderantes]

Not sure how much of a blocker windows support is, since current iss script is tailored to the original author's PC, which tells me there's no real support.

[ferdymercury]

I think the original author focused on providing the Windows binaries:
https://amide.sourceforge.net/installation_windows.html

If you want, we could create in the meanwhile a dev branch in this repo doing the meson migration. Thanks!!

[desiderantes]

Yeah I saw the compilation steps. Extremely manual. I think i'll focus on getting the macOS .app thing done first. As I see it, there's four options for building a Windows Installer that we can use:

• Inno (.iss) [current]
• NSIS (From WinAmp)
• Wix 3/Wixl (Wixl is native to linux, which means we could build .msi files from a cross-compilation)
• MSIX (Supposedly the future for UWP apps on windows, and would also work from linux)

I'm partial to the last two options, because it allows future automation like Ci/CD to happen within a single run.

[desiderantes]

And for the dev branch... I think I prefer to finish the basics on all three platforms first and then start a refining process on a more official branch (and maybe rewrite history in the process). How does that sound like? I don't feel very strong about it so if a dev branch is preferred that's OK

[ferdymercury]

Let's keep it simple and use the main branch as you suggest. We should just tag well the releases in Github to be able to go backward if something breaks :)