Feature request: move Distributed to package extension

[asinghvi17]

Would there be interest in moving the showprogressdistributed function to a package extension on Distributed? It could shave ~30 ms off load times for any package that uses ProgressMeter.

I could make a PR fairly easily, but the disadvantage is that it locks new versions of the package to support a minimum Julia version of v1.9.

What do folks here think?

[timholy]

I'm fine with bumping the requirement. Make 1.10 the minimum since that will be LTS.