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On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 05:55:45PM -0500, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote:
> Am I right then that the challenge is less an "importer" from the Racket
> package repository and more to do with how Racket actually installs its
> package outputs?  Or is it both?

At this stage a simple importer and adding packages by hand would work
for me. Recursive imports can be done later. Racket is typically not
as bad as Rust, Go or Javascript in wanting 100+ dependencies.

It would be great if we had a simple builder.

Pj.