Port cfg to argparse

Registered by Mark McLoughlin

The cfg API is currently based on optparse which has been deprecated in favour of argparse.

We should switch to argparse, hopefully without needing to change the API too radically.

With argparse supported added, we can also consider exposing some argparse APIs through the cfg API - for example, we could add a add_subparsers() method which would allow cfg API users to parse sub-commands using argparse.

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
Mark McLoughlin
Priority:
Essential
Drafter:
Laurence Miao
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Laurence Miao
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for grizzly
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2013.1
Started by
Mark McLoughlin
Completed by
Mark McLoughlin

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