Wrap the project in a Python package with a CLI command

[weaversam8]

This makes Stacks installable with pip! Now you won't have to copy the source files into your Terraform repository, and instead of having to remember the correct number of ../../../ to use, you can just run stacks preinit and stacks postinit.

The preinit.py and postinit.py files still support being run manually, for backwards compatibility. Currently the package isn't listed on PyPi, but that can be added in the future if desired. For now, you can install manually from GitHub, using the instructions in README.md.

NOTE: The diff displayed in the PR makes it look like I deleted/rewrote preinit.py and postinit.py. For a better diff, see the changes between these two commits. I just added a bit of code to enable these files to work both as scripts and as dependencies to cli.py.

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[weaversam8]

In my most recent commit, I also added an automated test to make sure the older pattern of invoking this module never breaks. Reasoning being: if I add any new features in future PRs, I'd want to make sure the existing pattern can continue to be used so we can maintain backwards compatibility.

[ribejara-te]

Hey @weaversam8, after thorough discussion with the team we're soon going to write a v2 version of Stacks that among other things, will transform it into a CLI.

We'll be doing that over next quarter (starting Nov) and it includes a fair deal of changes. We're also aiming at using the upstream (this) version of Stacks instead of our own private fork of it, so that you and everybody else get the same updates as we do.

We'll keep this open because the work you did here may inspire ours.

Thanks,
RB