[racket] require url?

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Eric Tanter <etanter at dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:

> I'm looking for a way to require a file given a URL:
> eg.
> (require (url "http://tmp.barzilay.org/defmac.ss"))
>   

Could be useful.  You'd have to use caution in what URLs you reference, 
since it's pretty much executing arbitrary code.  And, unless you were 
always on a trusted network including trusted DNS, you'd want to use 
HTTPS and a trusted CA list.  At that point, it becomes less lightweight.

> I know that the best option is a planet package, but that's a bit heavyweight for my current needs.

Would be good to have PLaneT support multiple repositories, such as 
organization- and project-specific ones.

If PLaneT supported multiple repositories, a side-effect is that the 
user's process of deploying via PLaneT could be made very lightweight 
for the non-public repositories.

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