Install CMake package config files with Meson, and add Meson options

Squashed onto develop from:
- Install CMake package config files with Meson
- meson: Indent code inside an if block
- meson: set a minimum Meson version
- meson: use `override_dependency()` to set dependencies
- meson: use `install_subdir` for headers
- meson: set the C++ standard to C++11
- meson: handle single header and multiheader the same way CMake does
- meson: add support for the GlobalUDLs option
- meson: add support for the ImplictConversions option
- Add meson information to FILES.md
- Complete the Meson options and match CMake's compile definitions
- Add the JSON_* definitions to the CMake pkg-config file
- Document the Meson options and check them in CI
- Fix the Meson CMake target for includedir or datadir outside the prefix
- Avoid //include in Meson-generated CMake target for prefix /
- Add DisableTupleReferenceConversion to Meson and the CMake pkg-config file
- Check in CI that Meson and pkg-config offer the CMake options
- Remove accidentally committed Python bytecode

Co-authored-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
Signed-off-by: Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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co-authored by Dylan Baker
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The "Check amalgamation" workflow fails if the file is out of date.
### `meson.build`
### `meson.build` and `meson_options.txt`
The build definition for the [Meson](https://mesonbuild.com) build system.
Meson build definitions suitable for use as a subproject ("wrap" in Meson terminology).
Projects wishing to use the wrap can execute:
```sh
meson wrap install nlohmann_json
```
Which allows Meson to build from source when a system provided dependency isn't available.
To build directly:
```sh
meson setup builddir
ninja -C builddir
```
`meson_options.txt` defines the options, which mirror the CMake options that change the library's target (for example,
`-DDiagnostics=true`). Meson requires this file next to `meson.build`, so it is also part of `include.zip`. `make check_build_options`
([`tools/check_build_options`](tools/check_build_options/README.md)) checks in CI that both files and the pkg-config files
stay in sync with the CMake options.
When installing, `meson.build` installs the headers, a pkg-config file, and the CMake package config files, so that
`find_package(nlohmann_json)` works. As Meson cannot generate `nlohmann_jsonTargets.cmake` itself, it is created from
the template `cmake/nlohmann_jsonTargets.cmake.in`, which is only used by Meson.
### `Package.swift`