This method allows meson.build to introspect on the changed options.
It works by merely exposing the same set of data that is logged by
MesonApp._generate.
Fixes#10898
Hook this up to installed dependency manifests. This is often needed
above and beyond just an SPDX string -- e.g. many licenses have custom
copyright lines.
This is based on searching for `@FeatureNew*` decorators.
There is also one correction to a version in a decorators;
`build_by_default` was added in #1303, which is 0.38.0, not 0.40.0.
They claimed that all of these functions accepted any posargs or varargs
that install scripts supported. This was inconsistent with both the
types that meson currently allowed, and the types that we documented in
refman 1.0 *should* be allowed.
Take the opportuninty to be clear as refman 1.0 never was, about the
difference between types supported in the first posarg, and the ypes
supported in succeeding varargs.