3rd party purl resolver api

[Lazerbeak12345]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Not a problem per-se, but it could give better system integration.

Further, this could perhaps fix the related issues.

Describe the solution you'd like

A lua API that allows a user to override Mason's default way of installing things. The API would provide a purl, and expect that the package is installed, removed, updated, etc.

(one example use case is to replace Mason's installation stack with https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager which is under the GPLv2 and can install packages via purl)

Describe potential alternatives you've considered

Keep it as-is?

Additional context

Related

• Custom registries #1275
• Automatically install npm #1286