Add a range() function

[pwithnall]

Like Python’s range()/xrange() functions, but usable from meson.build. This would be useful in combination with foreach for generating lists of things and operating on them.

My particular use case is to generate a list of all old stable versions (something like range($first_stable_release, $next_stable_release, 2)) so they can be passed as arguments to a build process.

[michaelcadilhac]

Another use case (if that's appropriate): I have 164 test files, I'm running a script on each of them. The file names are all something like testN.txt, with N in 1..164, and I'd rather build the set of test files using a loop.