Feature/remove jar bundle packaging #833
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This PR removes the usage of 'jar' to create bundle zips.
'jar' was used to ensure that the 'MANIFEST.mf' was the first entry in a zip file, which can be relevant when streaming bundles to a deployment. This was briefly relevant when combining Apache Celix with the (now retired) Apache Ace project. Because the 'MANIFEST.mf' file is now a 'MANIFEST.json' file, 'jar' is no longer needed.
With this PR, creating bundles can be done by using the CMake built-in zip support (default) or - when disabling compression - with the 'zip' executable.
I also briefly looked at replacing zip with something like Zstandard, but I think this introduces too much complexity without much gain.