Turn dependency constant into table

[Jan200101]

based on #685 credits to @uniboi for the original implementation

turns dependency constant from a plain boolean value to an optional table with the following attributes:

• version contains the raw version string of the dependency
• major, minor, patch contains an attempt at parsing the above version string naively as semver.
  • if the relevant segment is empty or not a number it will default to -1

reworked from scratch to add fewer functions and fix some bugs all around.