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rust: implementation of `hg`

This commit provides a mostly-working implementation of the
`hg` script in Rust along with scaffolding to support Rust in
the repository.

If you are familiar with Rust, the contents of the added rust/
directory should be pretty straightforward. We create an "hgcli"
package that implements a binary application to run Mercurial.
The output of this package is an "hg" binary.

Our Rust `hg` (henceforth "rhg") essentially is a port of the existing
`hg` Python script. The main difference is the creation of the embedded
CPython interpreter is handled by the binary itself instead of relying
on the shebang. In that sense, rhg is more similar to the "exe wrapper"
we currently use on Windows. However, unlike the exe wrapper, rhg does
not call the `hg` Python script. Instead, it uses the CPython APIs to
import mercurial modules and call appropriate functions. The amount of
code here is surprisingly small.

It is my intent to replace the existing C-based exe wrapper with rhg.
Preferably in the next Mercurial release. This should be achievable -
at least for some Mercurial distributions. The future/timeline for
rhg on other platforms is less clear. We already ship a hg.exe on
Windows. So if we get the quirks with Rust worked out, shipping a
Rust-based hg.exe should hopefully not be too contentious.

Now onto the implementation.

We're using python27-sys and the cpython crates for talking to the
CPython API. We currently don't use too much functionality of the
cpython crate and could have probably cut it out. However, it does
provide a reasonable abstraction over unsafe {} CPython function
calls. While we still have our fair share of those, at least we're
not dealing with too much refcounting, error checking, etc. So I
think the use of the cpython crate is justified. Plus, there is
not-yet-implemented functionality that could benefit from cpython. I
see our use of this crate only increasing.

The cpython and python27-sys crates are not without their issues.
The cpython crate didn't seem to account for the embedding use case
in its design. Instead, it seems to assume that you are building
a Python extension. It is making some questionable decisions around
certain CPython APIs. For example, it insists that
PyEval_ThreadsInitialized() is called and that the Python code
likely isn't the main thread in the underlying application. It
is also missing some functionality that is important for embedded
use cases (such as exporting the path to the Python interpreter
from its build script). After spending several hours trying to
wrangle python27-sys and cpython, I gave up and forked the project
on GitHub. Our Cargo.toml tracks this fork. I'm optimistic that
the upstream project will accept our contributions and we can
eventually unfork.

There is a non-trivial amount of code in our custom Cargo build
script. Our build.rs (which is called as part of building the hgcli
crate):

* Validates that the Python interpreter that was detected by the
  python27-sys crate provides a shared library (we only support
  shared library linking at this time - although this restriction
  could be loosened).
* Validates that the Python is built with UCS-4 support. This ensures
  maximum Unicode compatibility.
* Exports variables to the crate build allowing the built crate to e.g.
  find the path to the Python interpreter.

The produced rhg should be considered alpha quality. There are several
known deficiencies. Many of these are documented with inline TODOs.

Probably the biggest limitation of rhg is that it assumes it is
running from the ./rust/target/<target> directory of a source
distribution. So, rhg is currently not very practical for real-world
use. But, if you can `cargo build` it, running the binary *should*
yield a working Mercurial CLI.

In order to support using rhg with the test harness, we needed to hack
up run-tests.py so the path to Mercurial's Python files is set properly.
The change is extremely hacky and is only intended to be a stop-gap
until the test harness gains first-class support for installing rhg.
This will likely occur after we support running rhg outside the
source directory.

Despite its officially alpha quality, rhg copes extremely well with
the test harness (at least on Linux). Using
`run-tests.py --with-hg ../rust/target/debug/hg`, I only encounter
the following failures:

* test-run-tests.t -- Warnings emitted about using an unexpected
  Mercurial library. This is due to the hacky nature of setting the
  Python directory when run-tests.py detected rhg.
* test-devel-warnings.t -- Expected stack trace missing frame for `hg`
  (This is expected since we no longer have an `hg` script!)
* test-convert.t -- Test running `$PYTHON "$BINDIR"/hg`, which obviously
  assumes `hg` is a Python script.
* test-merge-tools.t -- Same assumption about `hg` being executable with
  Python.
* test-http-bad-server.t -- Seeing exit code 255 instead of 1 around
  line 358.
* test-blackbox.t -- Exit code 255 instead of 1.
* test-basic.t -- Exit code 255 instead of 1.

It certainly looks like we have a bug around exit code handling. I
don't think it is severe enough to hold up review and landing of this
initial implementation. Perfect is the enemy of good.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1581

# rcutil.py - utilities about config paths, special config sections etc.
#
#  Copyright Mercurial Contributors
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from __future__ import absolute_import

import os

from . import (
    encoding,
    pycompat,
    util,
)

if pycompat.iswindows:
    from . import scmwindows as scmplatform
else:
    from . import scmposix as scmplatform

fallbackpager = scmplatform.fallbackpager
systemrcpath = scmplatform.systemrcpath
userrcpath = scmplatform.userrcpath

def _expandrcpath(path):
    '''path could be a file or a directory. return a list of file paths'''
    p = util.expandpath(path)
    if os.path.isdir(p):
        join = os.path.join
        return [join(p, f) for f, k in util.listdir(p) if f.endswith('.rc')]
    return [p]

def envrcitems(env=None):
    '''Return [(section, name, value, source)] config items.

    The config items are extracted from environment variables specified by env,
    used to override systemrc, but not userrc.

    If env is not provided, encoding.environ will be used.
    '''
    if env is None:
        env = encoding.environ
    checklist = [
        ('EDITOR', 'ui', 'editor'),
        ('VISUAL', 'ui', 'editor'),
        ('PAGER', 'pager', 'pager'),
    ]
    result = []
    for envname, section, configname in checklist:
        if envname not in env:
            continue
        result.append((section, configname, env[envname], '$%s' % envname))
    return result

def defaultrcpath():
    '''return rc paths in default.d'''
    path = []
    defaultpath = os.path.join(util.datapath, 'default.d')
    if os.path.isdir(defaultpath):
        path = _expandrcpath(defaultpath)
    return path

def rccomponents():
    '''return an ordered [(type, obj)] about where to load configs.

    respect $HGRCPATH. if $HGRCPATH is empty, only .hg/hgrc of current repo is
    used. if $HGRCPATH is not set, the platform default will be used.

    if a directory is provided, *.rc files under it will be used.

    type could be either 'path' or 'items', if type is 'path', obj is a string,
    and is the config file path. if type is 'items', obj is a list of (section,
    name, value, source) that should fill the config directly.
    '''
    envrc = ('items', envrcitems())

    if 'HGRCPATH' in encoding.environ:
        # assume HGRCPATH is all about user configs so environments can be
        # overridden.
        _rccomponents = [envrc]
        for p in encoding.environ['HGRCPATH'].split(pycompat.ospathsep):
            if not p:
                continue
            _rccomponents.extend(('path', p) for p in _expandrcpath(p))
    else:
        normpaths = lambda paths: [('path', os.path.normpath(p)) for p in paths]
        _rccomponents = normpaths(defaultrcpath() + systemrcpath())
        _rccomponents.append(envrc)
        _rccomponents.extend(normpaths(userrcpath()))
    return _rccomponents

def defaultpagerenv():
    '''return a dict of default environment variables and their values,
    intended to be set before starting a pager.
    '''
    return {'LESS': 'FRX', 'LV': '-c'}