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zstandard: vendor python-zstandard 0.9.0

This was just released. It features a number of goodies. More info at
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2018/04/09/release-of-python-zstandard-0.9/.

The clang-format ignore list was updated to reflect the new source
of files.

The project contains a vendored copy of zstandard 1.3.4. The old
version was 1.1.3. One of the changes between those versions is that
zstandard is now dual licensed BSD + GPLv2 and the patent rights grant
has been removed. Good riddance.

The API should be backwards compatible. So no changes in core
should be needed. However, there were a number of changes in the
library that we'll want to adapt to. Those will be addressed in
subsequent commits.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3198

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.