Design if-env command line tool

[jmcook1186]

User story

As a user I want to be able to quickly create an environment to run my manifests, taking all my plugins into account.

Rationale

We can provide a command line tool that will inspect the package.jsons of the if and all the plugins listed in a manifest and create a unified package.json that can be used to define the environment in which the manifest can run. This will make it easy for users to run manifests and will also be useful scaffolding for our sandboxes, playgrounds and scenario testing. This ticket covers the design and specification but not the actual building of the tool.

Implementation details

• create a design proposal for the if-diff tool
• share with the team for approval
• create documentation and specification
• create new ticket for the actual build

Priority

3/5

Size

L

What does "done" look like?

Approved specification document exists, sufficient to build from.

Deadline

tbc

[zanete]

Proposing to include the design phase in the workflow of #636, closing to remove noise