[racket-dev] Any notion of ".jar" files for Racket?

From: Tony Garnock-Jones (tonyg at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 6 14:44:55 EST 2012

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.

Tony

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