I am making a package where a small subset of the functionality currently requires type piracy. I’d like to make users have to explicitly import this package separately from the main package in order to access this functionality, so that the type piracy does not occur if they do not need it. How ca…

Optional submodule that does type piracy

ericphanson September 8, 2022, 5:46pm 2

You could make it a separate Julia package (which can live in the same repo). Some libraries use this for “glue” code to avoid needing a dependency, e.g. Optimization.jl/lib at master · SciML/Optimization.jl · GitHub.

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