`NoSuchMethodError` if used in a project with Cats < 2.10

[kubukoz]

Discussed in #955

^{Originally posted by danicheg December 22, 2024}
Saying this straight off the bat, this is not a Redis4Cats issue! However, IMHO, some awareness (read better visibility) for the issue I encountered should be raised.
TL;DR, if a project lacks the explicit dependency on Cats-Core but has both Cats-Effect (v3.5.7) and Redis4Cats (v1.7.2) — an NSME will be thrown:

[error] java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'java.lang.Object cats.syntax.ApplyOps$.$times$greater$extension(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object, cats.Apply)'
[error] 	at dev.profunktor.redis4cats.connection.RedisClient$.$anonfun$acquireAndRelease$4(RedisClient.scala:45)
[error] 	at cats.effect.kernel.Resource$.$anonfun$make$1(Resource.scala:848)
[error] 	at cats.effect.IOFiber.runLoop(IOFiber.scala:343)
[error] 	at cats.effect.IOFiber.execR(IOFiber.scala:1362)
[error] 	at cats.effect.IOFiber.run(IOFiber.scala:112)
[error] 	at cats.effect.unsafe.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.scala:634)

That's unpleasant but until Cats-Effect is not on the current version of Cats-Core, the only possible solution is to have Cats-Core defined explicitly among the dependencies in a project. Again, there is nothing to be done on the Redis4Cats side.

See the complete minimal representation here https://github.com/danicheg/redis4cats-nsme-showcase.