Hello,
Many Scheme implementations offer a way to specify a list of locations
to search for libraries. I think the rule for resolving a library to its
source should be configurable on a per location basis. So for example
you might tell the system that you have libraries in some directories:
(set-library-locations "/usr/local/scheme-libraries"
"/home/chupacabra/scheme-libraries")
In this case, the implementation would use the default resolver that
maps as follows:
(a b c) => "a/b/c.sls"
I prefer resolvers that work like this:
(a b c) => "a/b/c/c.sls"
And the R6RS authors think you might want to access the source from a
database!
So it would be nice if you could specify the resolver:
(set-library-locations
(standard-resolver "/usr/local/scheme-libraries")
(my-resolver "/home/chupacabra/scheme-libraries"
(database-resolver "/home/chupacabra/database"))
You could do stuff like this:
(http-resolver "http://crop-circles.info/libraries";)
and the implementation would treat the remote list of files as a source
of libraries, downloading them as necessary.
Ed
