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packaging: support building Inno installer with PyOxidizer

We want to start distributing Mercurial on Python 3 on
Windows. PyOxidizer will be our vehicle for achieving that.

This commit implements basic support for producing Inno
installers using PyOxidizer.

While it is an eventual goal of PyOxidizer to produce
installers, those features aren't yet implemented. So our
strategy for producing Mercurial installers is similar to
what we've been doing with py2exe: invoke a build system to
produce files then stage those files into a directory so they
can be turned into an installer.

We had to make significant alterations to the pyoxidizer.bzl
config file to get it to produce the files that we desire for
a Windows install. This meant differentiating the build targets
so we can target Windows specifically.

We've added a new module to hgpackaging to deal with interacting
with PyOxidizer. It is similar to pyexe: we invoke a build process
then copy files to a staging directory. Ideally these extra
files would be defined in pyoxidizer.bzl. But I don't think it
is worth doing at this time, as PyOxidizer's config files are
lacking some features to make this turnkey.

The rest of the change is introducing a variant of the
Inno installer code that invokes PyOxidizer instead of
py2exe.

Comparing the Python 2.7 based Inno installers with this
one, the following changes were observed:

* No lib/*.{pyd, dll} files
* No Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest
* No msvc{m,p,r}90.dll files
* python27.dll replaced with python37.dll
* Add vcruntime140.dll file

The disappearance of the .pyd and .dll files is acceptable, as
PyOxidizer has embedded these in hg.exe and loads them from
memory.

The disappearance of the *90* files is acceptable because those
provide the Visual C++ 9 runtime, as required by Python 2.7.
Similarly, the appearance of vcruntime140.dll is a requirement
of Python 3.7.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8473

== New Features ==

 * `hg purge`/`hg clean` can now delete ignored files instead of
   untracked files, with the new -i flag.

 * `hg pull` now has a `--confirm` flag to prompt before applying changes.
   Config option `pull.confirm` is also added for that.

 * `hg log` now defaults to using an '%' symbol for commits involved
    in unresolved merge conflicts. That includes unresolved conflicts
    caused by e.g. `hg update --merge` and `hg graft`. '@' still takes
    precedence, so what used to be marked '@' still is.

 * New `conflictlocal()` and `conflictother()` revsets return the
   commits that are being merged, when there are conflicts. Also works
   for conflicts caused by e.g. `hg graft`.

 * `hg copy --forget` can be used to unmark a file as copied.

 * The `format.revlog-compression` configuration entry now accept a list. The
   first available option will be used. for example setting::

     [format]
     revlog-compression=zstd, zlib

   Will use `zstd` compression for new repositories is available, and will
   simply fall back to `zlib` if not.

 * `hg debugmergestate` output is now templated, which may be useful
   e.g. for IDEs that want to help the user resolve merge conflicts.


== New Experimental Features ==

 * `hg copy` now supports a `--at-rev` argument to mark files as
   copied in the specified commit. It only works with `--after` for
   now (i.e., it's only useful for marking files copied using non-hg
   `cp` as copied).

 * Use `hg copy --forget --at-rev REV` to unmark already committed
   copies.

== Bug Fixes  ==

 * Fix server exception when concurrent pushes delete the same bookmark

 * Prevent pushes of divergent bookmarks (foo@remote)

 * The push error "remote repository changed while pushing - please
   try again" now only happens when a concurrent push changed related
   heads (instead of when a concurrent pushed any revision).


== Backwards Compatibility Changes ==

 * When `hg rebase` pauses for merge conflict resolution, the working
   copy will no longer have the rebased node as a second parent. You
   can use the new `conflictparents()` revset for finding the other
   parent during a conflict.

 * `hg rebase` now accepts repeated `--source` and `--base`
   arguments. For example, `hg rebase --source 'A + B'` is equivalent
   to `hg rebase --source A --source B`. This is a
   backwards-incompatible change because it will break overriding an
   alias `myrebase = rebase --source A` by `hg myrebase --source B`
   (it will now rebase `(A + B)::` instead of `B::`).

 * `hg recover` does not verify the validity of the whole repository
   anymore. You can pass `--verify` or call `hg verify` if necessary.

 * `hg debugmergestate` output format changed. Let us know if that is
   causing you problems and we'll roll it back.

 * Resolved merge conflicts are now cleared by `hg commit` even if the
   working copy has no changes.


== Internal API Changes ==

 * The deprecated `ui.progress()` has now been deleted. Please use
   `ui.makeprogress()` instead.

 * `hg.merge()` now takes a `ctx` instead of the previous `repo` and
   `node` arguments.

 * `hg.merge()` has lost its `abort` argument. Please call
   `hg.abortmerge()` directly instead.

 * `hg.merge()` has lost its `mergeforce` argument. It should have
   only ever been called with the same value as the `force` argument.

 * The `*others` argument of `cmdutil.check_incompatible_arguments()`
   changed from being varargs argument to being a single collection.