if isdir(joinpath(Pkg.dir(),"Package"))
  ...
else
  ...
end

On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 10:50:56 AM UTC-5, Seth wrote:
>
> Is there a way to specify a conditional dependency (that is, use package 
> Foo if it's available and define functions that use things from Foo; 
> otherwise, don't define the functions or throw an error message) on 
> packages that contain macros? isdefined(Main, :Package) won't work since 
> the macros from Package are evaluated prior to this conditional, and it 
> will throw an error.
>
> I was using Requires.jl to do this, but one issue I ran into is that an 
> error in the code within the @require block is not propagated as an error; 
> it's presented as a warning, which means that things like unit tests will 
> pass even if the code is incorrect.
>

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