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rhg: Add support for automatic fallback to Python

`rhg` is a command-line application that can do a small subset of what
`hg` can. It is written entirely in Rust, which avoids the cost of starting
a Python interpreter and importing many Python modules.
In a script that runs many `hg` commands, this cost can add up.

However making users decide when to use `rhg` instead of `hg` is
not practical as we want the subset of supported functionality
to grow over time.

Instead we introduce "fallback" behavior where, when `rhg` encounters
something (a sub-command, a repository format, …) that is not implemented
in Rust-only, it does nothing but silently start a subprocess of
Python-based `hg` running the same command.
That way `rhg` becomes a drop-in replacement for `hg` that sometimes
goes faster. Whether Python is used should be an implementation detail
not apparent to users (other than through speed).

A new `fallback` value is added to the previously introduced
`rhg.on-unsupported` configuration key. When in this mode, the new
`rhg.fallback-executable` config is determine what command to use
to run a Python-based `hg`.

The previous `rhg.on-unsupported = abort-silent` configuration was designed
to let a wrapper script call `rhg` and then fall back to `hg` based on the
exit code. This is still available, but having fallback behavior built-in
in rhg might be easier for users instead of leaving that script "as an
exercise for the reader".

Using a subprocess like this is not idea, especially when `rhg` is to be
installed in `$PATH` as `hg`, since the other `hg.py` executable needs
to still be available… somewhere. Eventually this could be replaced
by using PyOxidizer to a have a single executable that embeds a Python
interpreter, but only starts it when needed.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10093

  $ . "$TESTDIR/helpers-testrepo.sh"

Testing that hghave does not crash when checking features

  $ hghave --test-features 2>/dev/null

Testing hghave extensibility for third party tools

  $ cat > hghaveaddon.py <<EOF
  > import hghave
  > @hghave.check("custom", "custom hghave feature")
  > def has_custom():
  >     return True
  > EOF

(invocation via run-tests.py)

  $ cat > test-hghaveaddon.t <<EOF
  > #require custom
  >   $ echo foo
  >   foo
  > EOF
  $ ( \
  > testrepohgenv; \
  > "$PYTHON" $TESTDIR/run-tests.py --with-hg=`which hg` -j 1 \
  >    $HGTEST_RUN_TESTS_PURE test-hghaveaddon.t \
  > )
  running 1 tests using 1 parallel processes 
  .
  # Ran 1 tests, 0 skipped, 0 failed.

(invocation via command line)

  $ unset TESTDIR
  $ hghave custom

(terminate with exit code 2 at failure of importing hghaveaddon.py)

  $ rm hghaveaddon.*
  $ cat > hghaveaddon.py <<NO_CHECK_EOF
  > importing this file should cause syntax error
  > NO_CHECK_EOF

  $ hghave custom
  failed to import hghaveaddon.py from '.': invalid syntax (hghaveaddon.py, line 1)
  [2]