Dont use anything

Author: Avik Pal

Project.toml

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ ForwardDiff = "f6369f11-7733-5829-9624-2563aa707210"
 LightGraphs = "093fc24a-ae57-5d10-9952-331d41423f4d"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"
-SciMLBase = "0bca4576-84f4-4d90-8ffe-ffa030f20462"
 SparseArrays = "2f01184e-e22b-5df5-ae63-d93ebab69eaf"
 StaticArrays = "90137ffa-7385-5640-81b9-e52037218182"
 VertexSafeGraphs = "19fa3120-7c27-5ec5-8db8-b0b0aa330d6f"
@@ -27,7 +26,6 @@ FiniteDiff = "2.8.1"
 ForwardDiff = "0.10"
 LightGraphs = "1.3"
 Requires = "0.5, 1.0"
-SciMLBase = "1"
 StaticArrays = "1"
 VertexSafeGraphs = "0.1"
 julia = "1.6"

src/SparseDiffTools.jl

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 module SparseDiffTools
 
 using Compat
-using SciMLBase
 using FiniteDiff
 using ForwardDiff
 using LightGraphs

src/differentiation/vecjac_products.jl

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+function _numargs(f)
+    typ = Tuple{Any, Val{:analytic}, Vararg}
+    typ2 = Tuple{Any, Type{Val{:analytic}}, Vararg} # This one is required for overloaded types
+    typ3 = Tuple{Any, Val{:jac}, Vararg}
+    typ4 = Tuple{Any, Type{Val{:jac}}, Vararg} # This one is required for overloaded types
+    typ5 = Tuple{Any, Val{:tgrad}, Vararg}
+    typ6 = Tuple{Any, Type{Val{:tgrad}}, Vararg} # This one is required for overloaded types
+    numparam = maximum([(m.sig<:typ || m.sig<:typ2 || m.sig<:typ3 || m.sig<:typ4 || m.sig<:typ5 || m.sig<:typ6) ? 0 : num_types_in_tuple(m.sig) for m in methods(f)])
+    return (numparam-1) #-1 in v0.5 since it adds f as the first parameter
+end
 
 function num_vecjac!(
     du,
@@ -8,7 +18,7 @@ function num_vecjac!(
     cache2 = similar(v);
     compute_f0 = true,
 )
-    if SciMLBase.numargs(f) != 2
+    if _numargs(f) != 2
         du .= num_jacvec(f, x, v)
         return du
     end