* [vcpkg metrics] start using json library
Additionally, add floats to the JSON library since they're required.
* [vcpkg metrics] allow users to disable metrics after the build
Additionally, as a drive by, fix UUID generation
* fix metrics data
* code review
* Adds scripts to generate scale sets for testing Linux.
* Note workaround for https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/pull/2929
* Switches Windows validation to 'Spot' VMs.
* Opens the git port 9418.
* Removes provisioning of the no longer used 'logs' file share.
* Changes Azure region to 'westus2', which is cheaper.
* Adds +x to all the scripts in scripts/azure-pipelines.
* Use 'xml-results' for all platforms instead of 'raw xml results' on Windows.
The current names and titles of the examples put too much emphasis on the package which is being demonstrated rather than the concept. This can be jarring for newcomers. This patch renames them to put the emphasis on the concept instead.
* Remove Windows as specific prerequisite
* Add crossplatform announcement to docs
* [find_acquire.cmake] Fix ninja path for mac
* Another pass at making more platfrom neutral
* two additional fixes
* [osx] Ignore .DS_Store file. Fixes#3306
* Remove noexcept from BinaryParagraph()
* Add Bash shebang to bootstrap script
* Update gitignore to exclude the `vcpkg` binary (artifact of the build
script) from the git repo
* [sh] Change to #!/bin/sh
* [sh] Remove merge conflict lines
* [sh] permissions
* Since the auto_ptr is removed in c++17, so use unique_ptr to instead of it.
* [libxmlpp] Bump version in CONTROL file
* [readme] Add additional supported host platforms
* [readme] Slight packing and reformatting
