Fortran bindings support for global variables (with test)
Added Fortran function name in error message to improve debug info
Added parameter (FlushStepsCount) control flushing of BP metadata files
at Write

Switched from ADIOS2 to ADIOS

Identify the bp version in buffer

Moved Variable start from 1 to 0

Modified tests for allowing stepping read mode
Made PerformPuts and PerformGets optional

Moved to sync functions
Added exception in EndStep if Perform Puts/Gets is missing

To do: understand blocks per step at write for string

Resolving long ambiguity
Correcting APPLE MACROS

Need to test, right now not working

Need to add examples and tests
Fixed some bugs in Attribute Read

Working on Fortran examples
Testing Row Major Reader
Debugging parallel read
Changed file open function
Added initial tests 1D and 2D

Attempting to solve HDF5 failed tests on summitdev

Remove cdash warnings for unused variables, type cast (including HDF5
char vs. int8) and virtual functions overloads.

Debug hello_bpWriter

Bug fix in Collective metadata serialization using threads
Added more API functions in Python bindings

bug1: when writing value characteristic bpdump requires the length before the value
bug2: fixed merging serialized collective metadata index

examples/hello/bpWriter/hellBPPutDeferred.cpp

BPWrite_c -> ctypes
XMLConfigTest.TwoIOs -> Test BP Writer 1