At Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:51:45 -0500, Danny Yoo wrote: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <to...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > On 03/06/2012 02:14 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > >> > >> The Java folks have a notion of ".jar" files that pack a collection of > >> class files into a single archive, but also make it possible to load > >> classes directly out of .jars without an intermediate unpacking stage. > >> .plt archives can serve a role to pack files together. Does Racket > >> have a mechanism for loading modules out of them without unpacking? > > > > Python and Erlang both support a similar thing, fwiw. > > Yup; I'm familiar with the Python side of things: they've got > `zipimport` to import libraries from zip files: > > http://docs.python.org/library/zipimport.html
If you don't need this functionality enabled by default, you could install a `load/use-compiled' handler that similarly recognized paths into a ".zip" file. I must admit, though, I'm disappointed if we can't rely on an OS-supplied filesystem to provide a good filesystem abstraction. Maybe there's some OS-level extension you could use to mount a file in an existing filesystem as a new filesystem (like Mac OS X's mounting of ".dmg" files)? _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
