fully usable within declarative relationship configuration, as its
string classname would not be available in the registry of classnames
at mapper configuration time.   The class now explicitly adds itself
to the class regsitry, and additionally both :class:`.AbstractConcreteBase`
as well as :class:`.ConcreteBase` set themselves up *before* mappers
are configured within the :func:`.configure_mappers` setup, using
the new :meth:`.MapperEvents.before_configured` event. [ticket:2950]

- Added new :meth:`.MapperEvents.before_configured` event which allows
an event at the start of :func:`.configure_mappers`, as well
as ``__declare_first__()`` hook within declarative to complement
``__declare_last__()``.

- modified how after_configured is invoked; we just make a dispatch()
not actually connected to any mapper.  this makes it easier
to also invoke before_configured correctly.

- improved the ComparableEntity fixture to handle collections that are sets.

new automap extension would fail if classes
were pre-arranged in single or potentially joined inheritance patterns.
The repaired joined inheritance issue could also potentially apply when
using :class:`.DeferredReflection` as well.

target of :paramref:`.relationship.secondary` for the purposes
of creating very complex :func:`.relationship` join conditions.
The change includes adjustments to query joining, joined eager loading
to not render a SELECT subquery, changes to lazy loading such that
the "secondary" target is properly included in the SELECT, and
changes to declarative to better support specification of a
join() object with classes as targets.

:class:`.DeferredReflection`
to define classes pending for reflection, if some subset of those
classes were discarded before the :meth:`.DeferredReflection.prepare`
method were called to reflect and map the class, a strong reference
to the class would remain held within the declarative internals.
This internal collection of "classes to map" now uses weak
references against the classes themselves.

attribute on declarative to simply refer directly to an :class:`.InstrumentedAttribute`
on a superclass or on the class itself, and it
acts more or less like a synonym; in 0.9, this fails to set up enough
bookkeeping to keep up with the more liberalized backref logic
from :ticket:`2789`.  Even though this use case was never directly
considered, it is now detected by declarative at the "setattr()" level
as well as when setting up a subclass, and the mirrored/renamed attribute
is now set up as a :func:`.synonym` instead. [ticket:2900]

:class:`.Column` is mapped multiple times under different properties
(which typically should be a :func:`.synonym` instead) or if two
or more :class:`.Column` objects are given the same name, raising
a warning if this condition is detected. [ticket:2828]

automatic reflection support for the "secondary" table referred
to by a :func:`.relationship`.   "secondary", when specified
either as a string table name, or as a :class:`.Table` object with
only a name and :class:`.MetaData` object will also be included
in the reflection process when :meth:`.DeferredReflection.prepare`
is called. [ticket:2865]
- clsregistry._resolver() now uses a stateful _class_resolver()
class in order to handle the work of mapping strings to
objects.   This is to provide for simpler extensibility, namely
a ._resolvers collection of ad-hoc name resolution functions;
the DeferredReflection class adds its own resolver here in order
to handle relationship(secondary) names which generate new
Table objects.