Major steps towards implementing the policy component.

Identified and reacted to the priority inversion problem we
have in texturefetch.  Includes the introduction of a priority_queue
for the requests that are ready.  Start some parameterization in
anticipation of having policy_class everywhere.  Removed _assert.h
which isn't really needed in indra codebase.  Implemented async
setPriority request (which I hope I can get rid of eventually along
with all priorities in this library).  Converted to using unsigned
int for priority rather than float.  Implemented POST and did
groundwork for PUT.