excuse to go through an use a typedef for priority and policy class id.

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.

The unit/integration tests don't work yet as I'm still battling cmake/autobuild
as usual but first milestone passed.