Improve how the Morphir CLI handles dependencies and add "includes" to allow providing dependencies at the command line

[DamianReeves]

Feature - Dependency Management improvement

Improve how the Morphir CLI handles dependencies and add "includes" to allow providing dependencies at the command line

Dependency Management Improvement

The Morphir CLI has had support for some time for models to depend on other models using localDependencies in their morphir.json file. While this feature is not particularly well documented, users who have taken advantage of this feature have hit on some difficulties. The primary issue is that the dependencies must be a local IR file, as each local dependency expected to be an existing Morphir IR on local disk (this means a JSON serialized Morphir IR File).

Users have expressed desires to be able to load dependencies from remote locations. Also, it would be nice if it were easier to share dependencies.

Ways we want to enable to load dependencies:

Local Dependencies

• file paths - Morphir IR JSON at a file path
• Data URLs - Morphir IR JSON encoded as a Data URL

Remote Dependencies

• - http(s) - Morphir IR JSON provided via http(s)
• - github - Morphir IR JSON at a github location and/or release
• - ftp - Morphir IR JSON at a FTP URL

NOTE: That to start we are focused on directly loading Morphir IR JSON files, but another feature we would look to support, but most likely not in this PR is to pull out the Morphir IR JSON files from a zip or tar archive as well as the more advanced function of triggering a build of the Morphir IR JSON given a dependency on a morphir.json project file which may be located at a local or remote location.

Includes

Includes allow you to support the use-cases mentioned above but using the -I command-line option. With the -I option it would be easy for example to inject additional IR includes to the morphir make, outside of what is provided in the morphir.json project file.

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