tests/hghave

help: revise explanation about capability check while selecting merge tool

This is follow up of 7c6044634957 and cded904f7acc.

This patch adds explanations about:

  - notation in capability columns in the table
  - how capabilities of external merge tools are treated

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Test the running system for features availability. Exit with zero
if all features are there, non-zero otherwise. If a feature name is
prefixed with "no-", the absence of feature is tested.
"""

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import hghave
import optparse
import os
import sys

checks = hghave.checks

def list_features():
    for name, feature in sorted(checks.items()):
        desc = feature[1]
        print(name + ':', desc)

def test_features():
    failed = 0
    for name, feature in checks.items():
        check, _ = feature
        try:
            check()
        except Exception as e:
            print("feature %s failed:  %s" % (name, e))
            failed += 1
    return failed

parser = optparse.OptionParser("%prog [options] [features]")
parser.add_option("--test-features", action="store_true",
                  help="test available features")
parser.add_option("--list-features", action="store_true",
                  help="list available features")

def _loadaddon():
    if 'TESTDIR' in os.environ:
        # loading from '.' isn't needed, because `hghave` should be
        # running at TESTTMP in this case
        path = os.environ['TESTDIR']
    else:
        path = '.'

    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(path, 'hghaveaddon.py')):
        return

    sys.path.insert(0, path)
    try:
        import hghaveaddon
        assert hghaveaddon  # silence pyflakes
    except BaseException as inst:
        sys.stderr.write('failed to import hghaveaddon.py from %r: %s\n'
                         % (path, inst))
        sys.exit(2)
    sys.path.pop(0)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    options, args = parser.parse_args()
    _loadaddon()
    if options.list_features:
        list_features()
        sys.exit(0)

    if options.test_features:
        sys.exit(test_features())

    hghave.require(args)