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refactor version code

- simplify version detection code
- move detection code into setup.py
- move version reading function into util.py
- drop version.py code

This makes hg more closely follow its own recommendation of how to deal with
versioning your builds: use hg id in your build script.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

See http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.