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run-tests: introduce a --pyoxidized option

This options make it possible to use the pyoxidizer version to run the tests.
This is a first basic version that is windows only.

The test needs a working python, with Mercurial installed. However the
pyoxidizer product is "self contains" without a "usable" Python. There have been
discussion to have a fully functional `hg admin::python` command providing a
fully functional python interpreter, but nothing is of the sort is ready yet. In

In the meantime we use an hybrid approach, similar to what we do for testing
`rhg`. We install a full "normal" Mercurial, but also the pyxodizer product as
the official `hg binary`. That way, we use the pyoxidizer version or everything,
but test that needs to run python have it available, with a fully functional
Mercurial package.

This first version is pretty basic (Windows only, no --local, not
--with-pyoxidized), but it runs, various bug that we will have to fix.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11277

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.