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util: add removedirs as platform depending function

According to fa901423ac23 introducing "windows._removedirs()":

    If a hg repository including working directory is a reparse point
    (directory symlinked or a junction point), then using
    os.removedirs will remove the reparse point erroneously.

"windows._removedirs()" should be used instead of "os.removedirs()" on
Windows.

This patch adds "removedirs" as platform depending function to replace
"os.removedirs()" invocations for portability and safety

to build a new macosx binary package:

install macpython from http://www.python.org/download/mac

install py2app from http://pythonmac.org/packages/

make sure /usr/local/bin is in your path

run bdist_mpkg in top-level hg directory

find packaged stuff in dist directory