- the very old 'writer' class was fully stateless and always templated
  on an particular output type.

  This is now replaced with a 'coordSetWriter' with similar concepts
  as previously introduced for surface writers (#1206).

  - writers change from being a generic state-less set of routines to
    more properly conforming to the normal notion of a writer.

  - Parallel data is done *outside* of the writers, since they are used
    in a wide variety of contexts and the caller is currently still in
    a better position for deciding how to combine parallel data.

ENH: update sampleSets to sample on per-field basis (#2347)

- sample/write a field in a single step.

- support for 'sampleOnExecute' to obtain values at execution
  intervals without writing.

- support 'sets' input as a dictionary entry (as well as a list),
  which is similar to the changes for sampled-surface and permits use
  of changeDictionary to modify content.

- globalIndex for gather to reduce ...