Feature arglist option aliases

Allows migration of command-line options, with versioning to track the 'age' of the changes. Eg, if -decomposeParDict gets changed to something like -decompose-dict, but we still wish to accept the older name for it:

argList::addOptionCompat("decompose-dict", { "decomposeParDict", 1612});
argList::addOptionCompat("no-function-objects", {"noFunctionObjects", 1612});

This emits a warning about the option being out of date, but will rewrite it with the newer option name, which is what would be referenced internally.

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@andy - I've put some ideas "to paper". Now only handles explicitly defined aliases for options, tagged with a version number as per the 78caeb61).

At least some of this would be nice to have done pre-release since this would mean that a bunch of options (eg, -listFunctionObjects) could just be replaced with -list-function-objects without any aliases since these did not appear in 1706.

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@Prashant - possibly of interest for you.

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this is limited to command line arguments or any keywords internal to FO/wall-functions etc...?

This is only for command-line options, but this commit 78caeb61 was already added for dictionary lookup, which we would be able to use when defining updated dictionary keywords.

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