Put plotting into an extension ?

[j-fu]

This would remove UnicodePlots as a strong dependency and remove some compilation time for users.

[chmerdon]

Yes, that's a good idea. Will do this.

[chmerdon]

Ok, I am running into a subtle issue:

• for the plots I require UnicodePlots and Term

When I do

[weakdeps]
UnicodePlots = "b8865327-cd53-5732-bb35-84acbb429228"
Term = "22787eb5-b846-44ae-b979-8e399b8463ab"

[extensions]
ExtendableFEMBaseUnicodePlotsExt = "UnicodePlots"

Term is not found during compilation of the extension. How can I make Term another dependency of the extension?
(If I move Term back to the main dependencies I get a stale dependency error from Aqua.)

[j-fu]

Ah need to think about this. Need to think about this.
May be related to JuliaLang/julia#56368 ?

[chmerdon]

Ok, it works in principle with

ExtendableFEMBaseUnicodePlotsExt = ["UnicodePlots", "Term"]

but then the user needs to use both packages to trigger that the extension is loaded. It would be more convenient that only UnicodePlots needs to be used...

[chmerdon]

Term triggers an extension in UnicodePlots by the way from which I use a function for the scalarplot. But maybe I should try to find some workaround...

[chmerdon]

Ok, for now I have switched off the line that requires Term. The extension seems to work now and only requires UnicodePlots.