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pyoxidizer: add hooks to inject extra python packages and install files

We need this type of hook to inject our internal extension and resource files
at Google. Presumably this could be useful to others, so instead of trying to
carry an internal patch we've done this in a modular way that should be of
value upstream.

I'm extremely puzzled by the behavior of glob() on Windows, and I'll
be filing at least one (probably two) bugs upstream about it.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11092

Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

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

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
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Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.