We were relying on "git archive" being able to create tar.gz files,
but that ability isn't present in the git that comes with CentOS 6,
so we use git to create a tar file and then compress it ourselves.
Allow optional specification of a version string (the intended use of
this to be able to roll a tarball from a source tree / repo that's not
the exact version being released).
Compute and display SHA256 hash of the tarball on Linux, FreeBSD, and
MacOS.
Don't exclude make_release from the tarball (no point in hiding it)
but do try a little harder to get rid of .hg\* files.
Comment out some debugging code.
