Re: [Jscheme-devel] loading from remote URLs

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

At 05:57 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, Timothy John Hickey wrote:
>Hi Jscheme afficionados,
>
>  I've started using the ability to load from a URL and its very nice. One problem is
>occurs when we load a file F from a URL and that file contains non-URL load statements.
>The natural interpretation would be to look for these embedded loads on that remote URL
>(just as happens with relative links in webpages), but currently Jscheme looks for those
>files locally. It should be pretty easy to get around this problem (keep a stack of URLs
>and always use the top of the stack for loads).
>
>What do you think? Am I missing some unintended consequence?

maybe you've found two (or more) features of JScheme that need to be combined in a better way, certainly in a way that hasn't been tried before.

The normal (load f) tries to open an input port treating f as first a file, then a resource, and then a URL..

This order was chosen because the .scm file would be in a local file before it gets moved into a jar file for a delivered application.  

I've never thought about the URL case.  JScheme has a dynamic class path, and perhaps such a URL should be added to that path.

What are you trying to do?