AppDaemon as a library

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Right now AppDaemon is an application framework. That's useful to get started, but it's less flexible than it just being a library as well. The "isolated Python" should be a feature that not everyone has to use. In my particular setup it doesn't add any value. For example, I have one Python in which I test out new features and once I am happy, I port it to the larger program, but the modules on the Python path need to be basically the same as for AppDaemon. Also, startup time to initialize AppDaemon has no value when experimenting/developing.

So, I'd like to just import appdaemon (which shouldn't execute any code, but just define some methods and classes) and have this kind of usage documented and "supported". (Just one example that would start the AppDaemon server and outputs "hello world" to the log would be enough for most people.)