- looks slightly messier without associative arrays, but improves
  portability. Should now also work with dash.

STYLE: support wmakeBuildInfo -cmp and -check options as equivalent

- they had an isType<> instead of isA<>() check

    Averages columns of cells for layered meshes.

    For each patch face, calculates the average value of all cells attached in
    the patch face normal direction, and then pushes the average value back
    to all cells in the column.

    Useful for channel-like cases where we want to average fields in the
    spanwise direction.

    Example of function object specification:
    columnAverage1
    {
        type        columnAverage;
        libs        ("libfieldFunctionObjects.so");
        ...
        patches     (front side);
        fields      (U p);
    }

    Where the entries comprise:
    \table
        Property     | Description               | Required    | Default value
        type         | type name: fieldMinMax    | yes         |
        patches      | list of patches to collapse onto | yes  |
        fields       | list of fields to process | yes         |
    \endtable

- this corresponds to 'never match', which may be useful in combination
  with -constant selection.

  Eg,

      surfaceMeshTriangulate -constant -time none

  selects only the constant entry and suppresses any automatic time loop

STYLE: adjust help for the standard -times option

- indicate that times can be comma or space separated, since this is
  otherwise not apparent. Don't mention semicolon separators in the help
  since that just adds even more clutter.

- support .vtp format for geometry, surface, line, cloud.

- use native reader for handling vtk, vtp, obj, stl surface files.
  For other formats, use the MeshedSurface (the surfMesh lib) to
  handle reading and Foam::vtk::Tools::Patch to handle the
  conversion to vtkPolyData. This combination is more memory efficient.

- update tutorial case to include vtp surface geometry

- note that it does not actually triangulate unless necessary, should
  probably receive a new name.

- use newer constructs for handling processor/non-processor patch
  selection etc.

- the patch could use face or triFace (labelledTriFace)

- avoid trigger patch faceNormals unnecessarily

- for quantities such as face area/normals etc, it can be useful to
  calculate directly and avoid the overhead of caching all the values.

STYLE: comments, use HashTable lookup() method in whichPoint()

- this allows more use of the runTimePostProcessing functionObject
  that will fail more gracefully if the proper version could not be
  built.

  The dummy functionObject simply emits a message that it is not available.

- primarily for handling cmake replacement libraries

- this is identical to either of these solutions:

     * getEnv("FOAM_CASE")
     * stringOps::expand("<case>")

  but with a closer resemblance to argList or Time globalPath(),
  which makes the intent clearer.
  Avoids using raw strings in the caller, which improves compile-time checks.

  Used in situations where a class has no derivation path or other
  access to a time registry or command args.