feat(PocketIC): support for testing bounded-wait calls #7936
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This PR facilitates testing bounded-wait calls by allowing the test author to specify the first and last subnet executed in a round. This way, it is possible to make the caller receive a timeout while the callee processes the message before or after the deadline.
Technically, this is achieved by extending the configuration of the "tick" endpoint of the PocketIC server (executing a round). In addition, the configuration types are now simplified and decoupled between the server and client (user-facing library). While the simplification and decoupling is technically a breaking change, we expect its impact to be limited since the current configuration options (configuring subnet blockmakers) are only expected to be used internally.