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rust: exposing in parsers module

To build with the Rust code, set the HGWITHRUSTEXT
environment variable.

At this point, it's possible to instantiate and use
a rustlazyancestors object from a Python interpreter.

The changes in setup.py are obviously a quick hack,
just good enough to test/bench without much
refactoring. We'd be happy to improve on that with
help from the community.

Rust bindings crate gets compiled as a static library,
which in turn gets linked within 'parsers.so'

With respect to the plans at
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/OxidationPlan
this would probably qualify as "roll our own FFI".
Also, it doesn't quite meet the target of getting
rid of C code, since it brings actually more, yet:

- the new C code does nothing else than parsing
  arguments and calling Rust functions.
  In particular, there's no complex allocation involved.
- subsequent changes could rewrite more of revlog.c, this
  time resulting in an overall decrease of C code and
  unsafety.

Mercurial
=========

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.