Add a new Tool.build_base_command() for centralizing command building.

Review Request #11548 — Created March 22, 2021 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded

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release-3.0.x

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Several tools need to build a command that refers to a temporary
configuration file, to control tool behavior. To avoid a lot of repeated
work and the creation of many temporary files, some tools create part of
the command (and related files) up-front in handle_files() or
execute(). Others don't bother, and this can matter for larger
changes, slowing down execution or flooding the filesystem with
temporary files.

To standardize behavior, this change introduces a new
Tool.build_base_command() method. This will be called in execute(),
and the result will be passed on to handle_files() and
handle_file(), which can then build onto it to construct and execute
the command.

This is disabled for legacy tools.

Unit tests pass on Python 2.7 and 3.x.

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