If I understand what you mean, the main problem is to support accessing a zip file's content through the filesystem API.
If there's always a way to mount a zip file as a directory or drive, then it's a question of starting racket with the right `-X` and `-G` (or `PLTCOLLECTS` and `PLTCONFIGDIR` environment variables) to point at the filesystem mount. If there's not a way to get the OS's filesystem API to view a zip file content as part of the filesystem, then a solution would involve building a new filesystem layer into Racket. That seems tedious, at best, and it's not clear to me how to make it interact well with foreign libraries that use the OS's API. If the goal is just to read module implementations from a zip file, then I think it would be possible to install a module name resolver (through `current-module-name-resolver`) that looks for modules in the zip file in much the same way that an executable generated by `raco exe` installs a module name resolve that finds modules embedded in the executable. I don't see how to make the resolve approach work with `raco make`, though, which expects to be able to find and track modules on the filesystem. Supporting `raco make` and other tools would, I think, require extending the search protocol for modules and adapting all tools (including `raco make` and `raco exe`) to perform that search. At Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:14:45 -0700 (PDT), Dan Liebgold wrote: > Hi all - > > If I were to try to zip all files (.rkt, .zo, .dep, etc etc) in the > <distro>/collects and <distro>/share/pkgs directories into a couple (or > more) .zip archives, what changes would I need to make to Racket to have it > only see the files in the given set of .zip archives? > > Thanks, > Dan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/3dd76ad1-5f10-4acf-b886-1dcbd5d336 > 4b%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/578d9d61.d21d620a.fdb49.4714SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
