deb/rpm distribution is not widely use and there is no current resource
dedicated in maintaining those packages. it is removed until working
versions are created again.

* support for creating linux arm64 artifacts

1) NOTE: workaround for arm64 with pkg via "--no-bytecode --public"

the packaging utilility (pkg) has following issues:

* bytecode generation fails for arm64:
  Warning Failed to make bytecode node16-arm64 for file /snapshot/zap/node_modules/...

  "--no-bytecode" flag is used to skip the bytecode generation

* --no-bytecode flag is broken:
  "Error! --no-bytecode and no source breaks final executable"

  "--public" flag is used as a workaround
  ref: https://github.com/vercel/pkg/issues/1139

2) update mac artifacts to be platform/architecture specific

3) pkg: version bump to pick up codesign error for macOS arm64

* updating code and dependencies to work with node 18

* updating documentation and other items from node 16 to 18

* Add fileFormat to the file.
* Add the cli logic.
* Add both builtin metafiles as default and refresh matter test file.
* Wrap up the type 1 format, keep default to 0.
* Add unit test and trigger proper conversion.
* Allow for injected key/value pairs.
* Fix the reportable.
* Fix the reportable change.
* Fix a unit test.
* Add name ordering.
* Upgrade one matter file.
* Convert an all-cluster matter file.
* Convert some more files.
* Add some more unit tests.

Adding the type to bitmap fields. This change is specific to the dotdot loader and is a backwards compatible fix which was broken during the ZCL data type schema update. (#1001)

JIRA: ZAPP-1122

* node-cache: return refs instead of clone for speed.
* add '--disableDbCaching' flag
* reduce heap usage by 50% (118MB -> 58.8MB via Chrome Heap Profiler) via disabling source map during build
* improve generation speed by 75% via SQL query caching

Using full-th sample app as reference, there are 108,871 SQL query calls
spread over the following query functions

* selectAtomicType()
* selectBitmapByName()
* selectDataTypeByName()
* selectEnumByName()
* selectNumberByName()
* selectStructByName()

Performance metric:
  test runner: ./src-script/gen-test-runner.js
  machine: macbook 2.6 Ghz 6-core Intel Core i7 / 32GB DDR4

  Before:
    average generation time: 42.851s

  After:
    initial cache warm up generation time: 17.699s
    average generation time: 11.766s

* Add some more content-based matter tests.
* Check the content to further depth of details.
* Add a cautionary tale that nobody will read... :(
* Get coverage reports.
* Clean up some typos.
* Use proper English.
* Remove xvfb-run, we do not need it.
* Clean up coverage for cypress, which is not being produced.
* Add the differently-ordered list to the generation.
* Fix the code coverage job.

* Cut down unnecessary repeat generations from same source.
* Break up zigbee tests into individual generations.
* Split database files.
* Fix the problem with the result.
* Clean up some custom package stuff.
* Consistently name tests.
* Add another generation for performance analysis.
* Add a full-th test for performance analysis.
* Sort out some nuances of the test.
* Separate each individual file for generation.
* There is no need to run Zigbee cypress tests twice.
* Support array for generateOnly option, and limit unit test generation to just what we test.
* Exclude more generations of things not needed for tests.
* Restore Matter test data to reasonably recent, and mandate the Matter tests to pass without errors.
* Add the all-clusters test for Matter.
* Bring back old matter XML files to keep Cypress fixtures happy.
* Comment out a code coverage. It was not doing much useful now, so we are commenting it out for now, until we restore it to correct functioning later, using the cache.

* Upgrade Quasar to v2 and Vue to v3.
* Upgrade Cypress and Jest tests.
* Extend license whitelist.
* Temporary hide Vue Tour.

* Add temporary target used to test with local fork of pkg.

* Honor ZAP_SKIP_REAL_VERSION environment variable.

1. Clean up the template files.
2. Clear some logging and bypass the loading error.

* Use 'ignore' as default packageMatch + add generation log.

0. Matter currently has a messy packages listed in their zap files. Until
that is fixed, the 'ignore' is the only reliable way that works with it.

1. Allow a ZAP_GENERATION_LOG env var or a --generationLog option to record
JSON file that logs all the generations.

* Actual switch to 'ignore'.

* Fix fuzzy as a package match for genmeta2.

* Remove a bunch of useless logic for loading validator.

* Clean up some mess of package loading, removing session where it is not needed.

* Update negative case.

* Fix the devserver execution for cypress.

* Make packageMatch a non-boolean option.

* Implement autoloading properly.

* Add a package matching mode which simply ignores the packages in zap file, used in unit tests.

* Clean up a unit test.

* Fix the matter test file to no longer point to zigbee.

* Simplify the analyze script.

* Update the template loader to not try to reload package options.

* Update docs.

* Clean up a comment.

* Remove unused argument.

* Update the gen targets a bit.
* Remove sonarcloud, fix some links.
* Add back genmeta and add genmeta2 for the current work.

https://github.com/project-chip/zap/issues/793

* Use CLI from slc.

* Increase feature level.

* use zap-cli naming for the CLI executable

* Update apack.json with the zap-cli name.

* pack zap-cli into ZAP artifacts

* fix path issue when packing cli binary for mac/linux

* Remove an overly paranoid check, which happens to prevent pkg-bundled executable to access metafiles.

Co-authored-by: jiteng <jing.teng@silabs.com>

* Fix the icons assets.
* Remove verbosity and collapse copyfiles.

* Hold the package-lock.json at the lockfileVersion 2 level, which mandates node 16.
* Add metafile check, making sure nobody commits package-lock file with an ancient npm.
* Update lock file.

* Simplify the convert script to same as generate script.
* Clean up the convert action.
* Fix the problem of binary build having a 0.0.0 version.
* Stop using package.json for runtime version detection, use .version.json instead.
* Fix the heap size for the binary executables.

* fix Nexus asset query issue.

was not constructing continuationToken URL correctly.

* ignore temp artifact files.

* unit test for download-artifact

* update cached download-artifact.js

* ignore download-artifact test from zap unit tests.

* download-artifact: add unit test / delegate to Github if specified branch is not cached on Nexus

intended for internal jenkins PRs that specifies a non-cached ZAP branch
on Nexus

* add pack:mac:native target
* workaround macOS Jenkins machine not able to build mac universal image.
* workaround for download-artifact build issue on node14, until DevOps can upgrade node16

* Install glob package at toplevel.

* Separate file parsing from the file processing.

* Add globbing to the sdk.json

* Increase feature level.

* Increase required feature level in the test.

* Add the regen SDK apack action.

* Add index and directory name as possible replacements to globbing pattern generation.

* Give cleaner alias names to matter, so that we can change that on SDK as well.

* build universal mac image for x64/arm64.

using 'exec' to launch electron-builder as a workaround for npm launch bug.
relying on npm/npx launch will cause electron-builder to hang

* trigger mac cert setup conditionally.

Dirty-flag:
* Remove dirty flag logic from "studio-rest-api" area, since it really has nothing to do with Studio REST API.
* Add a new file for it.
* Clean up the annoying error that kept printing upon shutdown.
* The dirty-flag reporting is now a generic async reporting mechanism, with dirty flag as an example.

Cypress:
* Collapse the two uitest scripts.
* Replace electron with chrome for cypress runs.
* Disable two validly failing tests.

This commit enables use of binary zap build for the Matter SDK. It bring the Matter JS code into the zap, cleans it up, and adds few new mechanisms to the templates.json files to support the Matter handling of yaml tests and test maintenance.

It also adds categorization and aliasing of helpers, so that only a subset can be loaded.

Furthermore, the handlebars instance is now no longer global, but it is created per-generation, and populated with the right subset of helpers.

Individual commits:

* Import: 07/29/2022
* Lint cleanup.
* Cleanup and alias few helpers.
* Add more directories to import.
* Use common aliases.
* Cleaning up imports.
* Import: add more files.
* Further imports cleanup.
* .js -> .ts
* Add category for Matter helpers.
* Comment, so I stop being confused.
* Add missing import of dbenum.
* Add the unit test for the helper loading via aliases.
* Fix the unit test.
* Cleanup the helpers api retrieval.
* Include a missing js file.
* Fix the api loading and testing.
* Skip automatic loading of categorized or aliased helpers.
* Add mechanism to auto-load helper categories and aliases.
* Make category functionality from gen-templates.json work correctly.
* Fix the bizarre mechanism of importing simulated clusters.
* Shortcut the package loading in case of only one available.
* Add more yaml files.
* Remove pointless directory read.
* Add the copying of the yaml files to copy script.
* Skip the meta symbol.
* Add the tests.
* Import: 8/2/2022
* Fix two small problems that accumulated into major problems.
* Fix various Matter issues.
* Remove stray require.
* Clean up the initialization API.
* Clean up the weird initialization of PICS.yaml.
* Remove a console.log
* Cleanup and alias another helper package.
* Add mechanism to share resource paths from gen-templates.json.
* Apply externalized resources to be able to remove all the yaml files.
* Remove yaml copying. Will not need this again.
* Import: 8/4/2022
* Detect open handles.
* Remove a useless test.
* Temporarily lower the coverage requirements, before we bring in Matter unit tests.
* Configure Matter code to stop doing ASI and instead put semicolons in the code.
* Move the tests out into JSON files.
* Move all the tests into ciTests json, deal with a more complex include+disable case.
* Properly read relative path for the tests.json files.
* Remove all tests code for matter.
* Remove unneeded JSON files that moved to SDK.
* Regen api baselines and remove references to test helpers.
* Stray rebase problem.
* Run cypress only once.

* fix enabled clusters test file

* adding ci for cypress against matter data

* updating cypress.json

* typescript
* do not check for github token when downloading from Nexus

* Remove the wrapping of arguments in the generate scripts.
* Log gen execution to json file.
* Add gen log parser and uncomment the gen.log creation.
* Add skeleton of the regenerateSdk feature.
* Load ZCL packages.
* Load generation templates.
* Stop complaining about electron versions all the time.
* Add test SDK file and add a test entry point.

* download from SiliconLabs fork by default
* enable Github token to be passed in via --githubToken

0. Add the workflow logic.
1. Remove some old muddle around project.env.DEV

* Share the ipc socket same way as single-instance shares sockets.

* Some code cleanup.

* Increase feature level to trigger IDE tests.

* Make server load both zigbee and matter data.

* Fix the hang of the generation in the client/server case.

* Automatically stamp versions at npm install time, to be ready for concurrency.

* Peg package-lock.json to the fake version as well.