Let's keep this away from the release branch. This reverts commit ec40b18ae4.
ec40b18ae4
attempt to build with meson
Seems it's picking up some version of Guile on MacOS which is not working.
currently this runs tests on the latest Ubuntu LTS and the latest macOS should be straightforward to run tests on any of the other [supported environments](https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments) or in a Docker container