Extension not loaded if trigger is a strong dependency [on 1.10]

[topolarity]

# Project.toml
name = "Foo"
uuid = "0a21ebe4-285f-4d3c-b082-40545a858146"
authors = ["Cody Tapscott <[email protected]>"]
version = "0.1.0"

[deps]
ModelingToolkit = "961ee093-0014-501f-94e3-6117800e7a78"

[extensions]
ModelingToolkitFooExt = ["ModelingToolkit"]

# ext/ModelingToolkitFooExt/ModelingToolkitFooExt.jl
module ModelingToolkitFooExt

using ModelingToolkit
using Foo

println("loaded ext")

end # ModelingToolkitFooExt

The extension does not load when doing using Foo, ModelingToolkit:

$ julia --project=Foo -q
julia> using Foo, ModelingToolkit

julia> Base.get_extension(Foo, :ModelingToolkitFooExt) === nothing
true

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.10.5
Commit 6f3fdf7b362 (2024-08-27 14:19 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 12 × 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1255U
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, alderlake)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 12 virtual cores)

Related: JuliaLang/Pkg.jl#3797 JuliaLang/Pkg.jl#4018

[topolarity]

If I change [deps] in the Project.toml to [weakdeps] and do a Pkg> resolve and Pkg> instantiate then this works:

julia> using Foo, ModelingToolkit
julia> Base.get_extension(Foo, :ModelingToolkitFooExt)
ModelingToolkitFooExt

[KristofferC]

Out or curiosity, what is the use case? Since it is a strong dependency I would thought you would put the code in the package since it will be unconditionally loaded, or?

[KristofferC]

Actually... I thought this would work looking at #54009...

[KristofferC]

Ok, it does work on 1.11, it is just that this feature is not available on 1.10.

[topolarity]

Out or curiosity, what is the use case?

Not a very compelling one, but still something I'd expect would work.

I wanted to ] add the extension package so that I could run my tests and I was using --project=. - Basically, I was messing with my environment temporarily as a poor man's version of TestEnv.jl

[KristofferC]

Yeah, that's the use case that was given in #54009 as well.

[topolarity]

Even if the feature is not available on 1.10, I think we ought to fix the KeyError that can happen here: JuliaLang/Pkg.jl#4018