so we need to use different function signatures for talking to different
fmtlib versions.
please see
https://fmt.dev/8.1.0/api.html#_CPPv4I0Dp0EN3fmt5printEvRNSt13basic_ostreamI4CharEERK1SDpRR4Args,
and
https://fmt.dev/9.0.0/api#_CPPv4IDpEN3fmt5printEvRNSt7ostreamE13format_stringIDp1TEDpRR1T