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setup: refactor the version string to a subset of tag+tagdist-hash+date

Here is an array summarizing the mercurial version string:
      [A]       [B]   [C]           [D]
[1] clone      tag   clean  =>  tag
[2] clone      hash  clean  =>  latesttag+latesttagdistance-hash
[3] clone      tag   dirty  =>  tag+date
[4] clone      hash  dirty  =>  latesttag+latesttagdistance-hash+date
[5] archive    tag   clean  =>  tag
[6] archive    hash  clean  =>  latesttag+latesttagdistance-hash

Column [A]: Mercurial built from an hg *archive* or hg *clone* working directory
Column [B]: revision built has a *tag* or else default to the SHA1 *hash*
Column [C]: working tree *clean* or *dirty*
Column [D]: Mercurial version string

Over the previous version:
- row [5] did return just the node hash, now it returns the tag
- prepend the latest tag and the distance to it to rows [2][4][6]
- append also the date to row [3]; previously, it was just the tag
- the version string is with an empty string to avoid possible TypeError
  exceptions during string manipulations
- factorize the function to run hg commands; remove the error message as it is
  no more specific to the function.

This scheme enables to have first part of the version strings that can be
compared, whether it has been built from a tagged or untagged revision.
The second part of the version adds a hash for untagged revisions and today's
date if the working tree has local modifications.
As the version string does not contain spaces or special characters, it should
not break script parsing the 'hg version' command and should be usable for use
in file names.

The new code also ensure that the version string has exactly the same version
string, whether it has been built from an archive or from a clone.

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>