v2024-07-10: Fix so latest fmt release builds; fix parallel timestep conssitency i…

A couple bug fixes from last tag:

• Fix missing include so will build with fmt-11.0.1 release
• Fix missing include
• Fix database timestep consistency check if one or more of the databases have no timesteps. Parallel IO case only.

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Contains the extended field metadata additions

Contains Catalyst2 latest developments

Contains line decomp option in ioss auto-decomp

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Latest release tested in Sierra and Trilinos

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Mostly bug-fixes; some new functionality

Cleaned up C++ constructor usage by not providing unneeded constructors/destructors.
Do not rely on a std::vector::data() method to provide null pointer on emtpy vectors -- use Data(std::vector) wrapper to guarantee.
Better windows build -- should support shared exodus library for use with python libraries.

Fix issue with v2023-10-24

The v2023-10-24 tag included some branch code. Redoing tag to get correct code.

Includes all changes in v2023-10-24:
Aprepro loop, no-echo {{expression}} shortcut, and physical constants are a big change.
Lots of robustness fixes.
New databases useful for testing -- Null, ExoNull, and TextMesh
New zoltan-based decomposition methods in Slice.
Lots of other bug fixes and enhancements and code cleanups.

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v2023-05-30

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v2022-10-14

Use c++17 fallthrough; remove unused fallthrough

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v2022-08-01

IOSS: Add missing DebugOut(), increase logging time precision

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v2022-05-16

MODULE: Remove old unused unsupported lines [ci skip]

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v2022-03-04

Use lib::fmt as external library; other changes