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pyoxidizer: don't use in-memory for resources on macOS

When trying to debug something else on macOS, pyoxidized builds were failing
with the following message about pywatchman (and then cext.base85 when I
commented out pywatchman):

    "cannot be loaded from memory but memory loading required"

I don't have any immediate plans to do more work on macOS, but maybe this will
save someone else time debugging this.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11451

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.