Improved large addon installation - #467
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Large addons like the Parts Library are inherently fickle to install and update: it's safer and more reliable to use zip downloads, at the cost of inordinately expensive updates later on. This PR adds a mechanism for marking an addon as "large" at the Addon Index level, and then attempting to use
gitto install it instead, if the user has a git client installed. If not, it falls back to the usual zip mechanism. If the git install fails (not uncommon for these huge repos) it offers to either retry or to switch to zip.Note that this requires an update to the Addon Index to actually be useful, since now it must indicate which addons should be treated this way.