annotate contrib/asv.conf.json @ 40589:054d0fcba2c4

commandserver: add experimental option to use separate message channel

This is loosely based on the idea of the TortoiseHg's pipeui extension,
which attaches ui.label to message text so the command-server client can
capture prompt text, for example.

https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/src/4.7.2/tortoisehg/util/pipeui.py

I was thinking that this functionality could be generalized to templating,
but changed mind as doing template stuff would be unnecessarily complex.
It's merely a status message, a simple serialization option should suffice.

Since this slightly changes the command-server protocol, it's gated by a
config knob. If the config is enabled, and if it's supported by the server,
"message-encoding: <name>" is advertised so the client can stop parsing
'o'/'e' channel data and read encoded messages from the 'm' channel. As we
might add new message encodings in future releases, client can specify a list
of encoding names in preferred order.

This patch includes 'cbor' encoding as example. Perhaps, 'json' should be
supported as well.

{
    "version": 1,
    "project": "mercurial",
    "project_url": "https://mercurial-scm.org/",
    "repo": "..",
    "branches": ["default", "stable"],
    "environment_type": "virtualenv",
    "show_commit_url": "https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/",
    "benchmark_dir": "benchmarks",
    "env_dir": "../.asv/env",
    "results_dir": "../.asv/results",
    "html_dir": "../.asv/html"
}