parsers.c is ~3000 lines and ~2/3 of it is related to the revlog
index type.
We already have separate C source files for directory utilities
and manifest parsing. I think the quite unwieldy revlog/index
parsing code should be self-contained as well.
I performed the extraction as a file copy then removed content
from both sides in order to preserve file history and blame.
As part of this, I also had to move the hexdigit table and
function to a shared header since it is used by both parsers.c
and revlog.c
# no-check-commit
I'm going to restructure cext/pure modules and get rid of our hgimporter
hack. C extension modules will be moved to cext/ directory so old and new
compiled modules can coexist in development tree. This is necessary to
run 'hg bisect' without recompiling.
New extension modules will be loaded by an importer function:
base85 = policy.importmod('base85') # select pure.base85 or cext.base85
This will also allow us to split cffi from pure modules, which is currently
difficult because pure modules can't be imported by name.
