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packaging: add support for PyOxidizer

I've successfully built Mercurial on the development tip of
PyOxidizer on Linux and Windows. It mostly "just works" on Linux.
Windows is a bit more finicky.

In-memory resource files are probably not all working correctly
due to bugs in PyOxidizer's naming of modules. PyOxidizer now
now supports installing files next to the produced binary. (We
do this for templates in the added file.) So a workaround
should be available.

Also, since the last time I submitted support for PyOxidizer,
PyOxidizer gained the ability to auto-generate Rust projects
to build executables. So we don't need to worry about vendoring
any Rust code to initially support PyOxidizer. However, at some
point we will likely want to write our own command line driver
that embeds a Python interpreter via PyOxidizer so we can run
Rust code outside the confines of a Python interpreter. But that
will be a follow-up.

I would also like to add packaging.py CLI commands to build
PyOxidizer distributions. This can come later, if ever.
PyOxidizer's new "targets" feature makes it really easy to define
packaging tasks in its Starlark configuration file. While not
much is implemented yet, eventually we should be able to produce
MSIs, etc using a `pyoxidizer build` one-liner. We'll get there...

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7450

[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>