Currently, once an option is in use we are stuck with the name it has.
My proposal is a new tag <also> (or, potentially an attribute on the <option> of the same name
So, theoretically
<option name="new_name" type="int">
<also>old_name older_name</also>
<default>10</default>
<min>1</min>
<max>20</max>
</option>
Which would read from an ini file
[section]
new_name=5
old_name=15
Finding the value 5
and from a different config file
Finding the value 15