Cane planning

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short for hurricane - package management system, like gems - have one or more repositories, and installs either in a system global or a user global location. can also use an application specific location - have hooks for system specific system management tools, so that useCane("foo") will actually check - and load - from apt-get for example. only if the system specific packaging tools doesn't load it, it will load with the cane mechanism - when listing, will use system specific tools to find installed versions too - should be able to use things on classpath inside of jars too - should be able to install directly from a git repository, etc.

a cane can be autoloaded - specified as a configuration thing for the cane

cane is loaded automatically as part of Ioke.