Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:03:48 -0800] rev 30437
util: expose an "available" API on compression engines
When the zstd compression engine is introduced, it won't work in all
installations, namely pure Python installs. So, we need a mechanism to
declare whether a compression engine is available. We don't want to
conditionally register the compression engine because it is sometimes
useful to know when a compression engine name or encountered data is
valid but just not available versus unknown.
Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc@gmail.com> [Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:26:35 -0800] rev 30436
setup: compile zstd C extension
Now that zstd and python-zstandard are vendored, we can start compiling
them as part of the install.
python-zstandard provides a self-contained Python function that returns
a distutils.extension.Extension, so it is really easy to add zstd
to our setup.py without having to worry about defining source files,
include paths, etc. The function even allows specifying the module
name the extension should be compiled as. This conveniently allows us
to compile the module into the "mercurial" package so "our" version
won't collide with a version installed under the canonical "zstd"
module name.