2017-03-10 10:55 GMT+01:00 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de>: > > Vítor De Araújo writes: > > > (Or maybe package _names_ could be URLs pointing to an index in a > > well-defined format, which tells how to download each version of a > > package; then we could have even dependency management without a > > central repository. I'm pipe-dreaming here, though.) > > You’re not just dreaming: > > https://github.com/plande/compan/blob/master/compan.scm > > ;; clone the repository and load (lib) module from the top level: > (load-modules ("https://bitbucket.org/panicz/dogma"; (lib))) > > ;; as above, but load modules from "libraries" directory: > (load-modules (("https://github.com/panicz/pamphlet"; "libraries") > (pamphlet))) > > ;; one can also fix on a particular tag/branch/commit: > (load-modules (("https://bitbucket.org/panicz/dogma"; "." > "3884445191c2") (lib))) > > We’d just have to decide to use this. > > I think that the situation isn't quite as good as one could think. The code works fine from the interpreter, but if fails to work for compiled code, and I think that we'd need to come up with some solution of delaing module imports in compiled code until they're available.
(Note also that the source code of Compan is extremely straightforward, as it boils down to a few calls of the "system" function which in turns calls some "hg" commands) So while I think that the author's idea was very nice, it clearly needs some elaboration :)
