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setup: stop packaging python3.dll and python3X.dll in the wheel distribution

Now that exewrapper is smart enough to find the DLLs it needs without help from
the build script, backout ed286d150aa8 and 2960b7fac966.  Note that this will
require deleting the build/lib.win-amd64-3.X directory to actually remove it
from the final wheel.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11455

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.