## Summary
Resolves#15979.
The file explains what Red Knot is (a type checker), what state it is in
(not yet ready for user testing), what its goals ("extremely fast") and
non-goals (not a drop-in replacement for other type checkers) are as
well as what the crates contain.
## Test Plan
None.
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Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
This PR vendors typeshed!
- The first commit vendors the stdlib directory from typeshed into a new crates/red_knot/vendored_typeshed directory.
- The second commit adjusts various linting config files to make sure that the vendored code is excluded from typo checks, formatting checks, etc.
- The LICENSE and README.md files are also vendored, but all other directories and files (stubs, scripts, tests, test_cases, etc.) are excluded. We should have no need for them (except possibly stubs/, discussed in more depth below).
- Similar to the way pyright has a commit.txt file in its vendored copy of typeshed, to indicate which typeshed commit the vendored code corresponds to, I've also added a crates/red_knot/vendored_typeshed/source_commit.txt file in the third commit of this PR.
One open question is: should we vendor the stdlib and stubs directories, or just the stdlib directory? The stubs/ directory contains stubs for 162 third-party packages outside the stdlib. Mypy and typeshed_client1 only vendor the stdlib directory; pyright and pyre vendor both the stdlib and stubs directories; pytype vendors the entire typeshed repo (scripts/, tests/ and all).
In this PR, I've chosen to copy mypy and typeshed_client. Unlike vendoring the stdlib, which is unavoidable if we want to do typechecking of the stdlib, it's not strictly necessary to vendor the stubs directory: each subdirectory in stubs is published to PyPI as a standalone stubs distribution that can be (uv)-pip-installed into a virtual environment. It might be useful for our users if we vendored those stubs anyway, but there are costs as well as benefits to doing so (apart from just the sheer amount of vendored code in the ruff repository), so I'd rather consider it separately.
