vtkXMLCompositeDataWriter: make MakeDirectory() virtual and prevent redundant directory creation in parallel

Make it virtual and override it in vtkXMLPMultiBlockDataWriter so that only rank 0 tries to create the directory where pieces are written.

Backport: release Backport: paraview/release

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Warnings:

• please consider adding a changelog entry in a file ending with .md in Documentation/release/dev.

The warnings do not need to be fixed, but it is recommended to do so.

Warnings:

• please consider adding a changelog entry in a file ending with .md in Documentation/release/dev.

The warnings do not need to be fixed, but it is recommended to do so.

mentioned in issue paraview/paraview#22516 (closed)

changed title from vtkXMLCompositeDataWriter: make MakeDirectory() virtual to vtkXMLCompositeDataWriter: make MakeDirectory() virtual and prevent redundant directory creation in parallel

requested review from @spiros.tsalikis

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Thanks for the review. I am going to first do a test run in ParaView before merging.

Test MR: paraview/paraview!6833 (closed)

MPI-enabled tests for ParaView are fine (except one that couldn't find this branch for an unknown reason).

Do: merge

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