tests/hghave

internals: document CBOR utilization

I spoke with some people at Mozilla about CBOR and they advised me
that we should be careful about the subset of CBOR we use in order
to mitigate security, performance, and compatibility concerns.

This commit establishes a document that attempts to formalize our
use of CBOR.

Its main limitations are on what types are allowed. It explicitly
enumerates which types are supported. Notable missing features
include:

* Indefinite-length arrays and maps
* Text strings (bytes all the way)
* Floats
* Date/time types
* Big integers
* Use of indefinite-length byte strings for map keys, values in
  containers.

If we have a need for any of these, we can have a discussion about
them when the time comes.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4412

#!/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)