1.9 Extensions are great, we need more of those. They are a great step into the dream of infinite interoperability that is one of my main motivators to use julia. For those reasons, i hereby make a call to extend as much packages as possible. A first concrete step in that direction is a place to co…

Gotcha. This distinction is pretty critical for other developers and fits within my previous comment pretty well. There needs to be text somewhere clearly stating this sort of stuff for the many packages that should have some form of plot support through an extension.

Understanding all of the pros and cons, and also the steps one needs to take to convert a package would be useful. It would be useful to include the docstrings for functions in the extension in docs generated by Documenter.jl. I dont know how to do this. You can attach documentation to the declar…

The first obvious approach is to look for packages that currently use Requires and replace that with extensions instead.

A first example could be [image] GitHub - JuliaML/DensityRatioEstimation.jl: Density ratio estimation in Julia Density ratio estimation in Julia. Contribute to JuliaML/DensityRatioEstimation.jl development by creating an account on GitHub. It uses Requires.j…

Are there any cons? I don’t think there are any over using Requires beyond the time and effort to do the conversion (but, yes, I suppose the situation may be different if you’re converting a direct dependency to a weak one). Here’s a previous thread with a run-down on you you convert Requires to an …

One con that I did notice is that with Requires one can actually define structs in the added code (now: extension) to the original package. Sure that is not so reasonable, but took me a while to find a good alternative way to accomplish the same without introducing a new struct (that the parent pac…

There’s a recent issue with Plots and IJulia where the extension doesn’t really work: [BUG] IJuliaExt causes problems with IJulia in default environment opened 11:03AM - 10 Apr 23 UTC (UTC) closed 01:24PM - 26 Ma…

Out of curiosity, what was the alternative you found?

I remodelled the struct to be more general (in my case a struct that among others used some caches, now generic caches). And I had to rethink/remodel a few functions that were working with said struct. I am also not saying my original model was a good one (just because it was possible with Revise.…

Seems like FileIO can use extensions for different file formats, isn’t it?

Call to write 1.9 extensions (and find pkgs that need those)

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Call to write 1.9 extensions (and find pkgs that need those)

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