Test installation of every catalog extension on schedule

[ehennestad]

Motivation

Problem — When an extension in the catalog stops installing in MatNWB, the maintainers find out only when a user reports it. Before #931, #932 and #933, three of the 30 catalog extensions (ndx-odor-metadata, ndx-microscopy and ndx-franklab-novela) failed to install, for three unrelated reasons, and nothing in CI showed it. The scheduled update_extension_list workflow keeps the list of extension names up to date, but never installs one, and the test suite installs only ndx-miniscope and ndx-photostim.

Solution — The workflow now also installs the latest release of every catalog extension on its schedule. The job summary lists each extension's versions and installation result, and the job fails when an extension does not install.

What changed

• A new job in update_extension_list.yml, test_extension_installation, runs on the same schedule and on manual dispatch.
• Each extension is installed in its own folder with the core schema, so extensions that require different versions of the same extension do not affect each other.
• The job summary has one row per extension: the version in the catalog, the latest release and number of releases on PyPI, and Installed or the error message.
• The job fails when any extension fails to install, and the error names the extensions.
• The job is separate from the list update, so a failing extension does not stop the list from being updated.
• tools/maintenance/matnwb_testExtensionInstallation runs the same check locally.

Examples

The report

Running the check on this branch, which does not include the fix in #931, gives this summary (abridged) and fails because of ndx-odor-metadata:

addpath(genpath("tools"))
matnwb_testExtensionInstallation()

## Extension installation

29 of 30 extensions installed.

| Extension | Catalog version | Latest release | Releases on PyPI | Installation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ndx-miniscope | 0.2.2 | 0.5.1 | 7 | Installed |
| ndx-events | 0.2.0 | 0.4.0 | 4 | Installed |
| ndx-odor-metadata | 0.1.1 | 0.1.1 | 2 | Failed: Not implemented. If you see this error, please report |
| ndx-franklab-novela | 0.1.0 | 0.2.4 | 9 | Installed |
| ndx-microscopy | 0.2.1 | 0.3.0 | 4 | Installed |
...

Error using matnwb_testExtensionInstallation
1 of 30 extensions failed to install: ndx-odor-metadata.

How to test

Run the snippet above from the MatNWB root folder. To run the job on GitHub, dispatch the workflow from this branch; note that the dispatch also runs the existing update_extension_list job, which pushes an updated nwbInstallExtension.m to main when the catalog has changed.

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