GSoC 2018 Ideas: Bring back old-style resource registry

[hvelarde]

I prefer no to work in this idea in favor of this one:

GSoC 2018 Ideas: Simplify the resource registry

This is one post in a series to begin focused discussion about ideas that came out of our 2018 GSoC Brainstorm. Please use this post as a place to begin to discuss this idea more in depth. The idea was proposed by @hvelarde and it has been suggested that @thet might be a good mentor. The project description: Get rid of the need of bundle resources (basically, implement PLIP 1955) Ongoing discussion of this PLIP is happening in github. Please consider making comments that contribute to that…