Use extensions for proprietary actors

[bclyons12]

Done here with ActorThermalPlant and ThermalSystemModels as a demonstration

[bclyons12]

Now if you want to use FUSE with ThermalSystemModels, as we've always done, you either have to make your own environment and add or dev both FUSE and ThermalSystemModels into it, or use the FUSE/proprietary_envs/GA environment. For example:

import Pkg; Pkg.activate("FUSE/proprietary_envs/GA")
import FUSE, ThermalSystemModels
dd, ini, act = FUSE.init(:FPP);
FUSE.ActorWholeFacility(dd, act);

[orso82]

@bclyons12 could we have a

try
    import ThermalSystemModels
catch
end

in FUSE, to avoid having people to do import FUSE, ThermalSystemModels since they'll be already doing Pkg.activate("FUSE/proprietary_envs/GA")

[bclyons12]

@orso82 ThermalSystemModels is not in the FUSE Project.toml, so I think that will always error.

[bclyons12]

The only way I could think of doing it would be custom packages. So something like:

module FUSE_GA

using FUSE
using ThermalSystemModels

for n in names(FUSE)
    export n
end

Then import FUSE_GA as FUSE will work like before? Maybe? I haven't tested this.

[orso82]

I was thinking the same

People can then do using FUSE_GA and get going.

FUSE_GA then must be under FUSE/proprietary_envs/GA