python-compat: drop support for Python3.6 and 3.7 As discussed on the mailing list¹, these are old version that seems safe to drop. Python 3.8 comes with various improvement especially regarding typing capabilities. [1] https://lists.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2024-July/297998.html

ci: drop path manipulation that we do not need anymore The CI image has a squarer setup now.

brancing: merge stable into default

setup: handle removal of old MSVC compiler from setuptools 65.0 (issue6910) It was removed a few years ago[1]. When trying to reproduce locally using a clean py3.12 as called out in the bug report, `setuptools` wasn't installed at all, and needed a `pip install` to fix a `ModuleNotFoundError` when building locally. Maybe that needs to be in the requirements clause now. It looks like this "private" module was added in setuptools 48.0.[2] I can't find a changelog of what version was included in which version of python, and the changelog for pip has a huge gap between when it called out 67.6.1 in `pip` 23.1 (2023-04-15), and 41.4.0 in `pip` 19.3 (2019-10-14).[3] So, we'll just add to the existing code instead of replacing it, for safety. [1] https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/cc017c77948737d131f683e0c25cd37bc639b8fc [2] https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/commit/d034a5ec7f707499139f90eb846b9e720923124c [3] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/

utils: accept bytearray arguments for escapestr

http: simplify

http: use urllib's cookie handler Split the logic for loading the cookies based on the configuration in a helper function and otherwise use the library implementation directly.

http: reuse Python's implementation of read/readline/readinto Since Python 3 already provides a working implementation of readline, there is no need for our own buffering implementation. Reduce the code to transfer accounting only.

debugwireproto: redo logging to also work for https

urllib2: redo response.readlines addition via class patching

typing: lock in new pytype gains from making revlog related classes typeable These were pretty clean changes in the pyi files from earlier in this series, so add them to the code to make it more understandable. There's one more trivial hint that can be added to the return of `mercurial.revlogutils.rewrite._filelog_from_filename()`, however it needs to be imported from '..' under the conditional of `typing.TYPE_CHECKING`, and that seems to confuse the import checker- possibly because there's already an import block from that level. (I would have expected a message about multiple import statements in this case, but got one about higher level imports should come first, no matter where I put the import statement.)

typing: add types to `revlog.revlogproblem` These attrs showed as `Any` after the previous commit made the class visible to pytype.

typing: make the revlog classes known to pytype These are the same changes as c1d7ac70980b and 45270e286bdc made to dirstate, for the same reasons.

typing: make the manifest classes known to pytype These are the same changes as c1d7ac70980b and 45270e286bdc made to dirstate, for the same reasons. The migration away from decorating the classes with `@interfaceutil.implementer` was started back in 3e9a660b074a, but missed one.

typing: make the filelog class known to pytype These are the same changes as c1d7ac70980b and 45270e286bdc made to dirstate, for the same reasons.

remotefilelog: adapt the `debugindex` command to past API changes Pytype was missing these problems because it's currently inferring the classes for `filelog` and `revlog` to be `Any`. When that's fixed, these were flagged, so fix these first. The `filelog` class used to subclass `revlog`, but that was changed back in 1541e1a8e87d (with most or all of the "lost" attributes being forwarded to the embedded `revlog` attribute at that time). These forwarded references were dropped over time, and this command has been broken at least as far back as 68282a7b29a7 when the `version` field was dropped. Most of the fixes were as simple as calling the accessor for the embedded `revlog` member, but the general delta feature detection was a bit more involved- I copied the detection for it from `mercurial.revlogutils.debug.debug_revlog()`.