8.12
2 Package Catalog Clients
A package catalog client, or simply package client, is an object used to connect to a package catalog. Clients encapsulate state associated with the catalog such as caches and network connections. The current-package-client parameter provides a client to all of the functions in package-analysis. By default, this parameter is set to a client for the official package catalog at pkgs.racket-lang.org.
procedure
(package-client? v) → boolean?
v : any/c
A predicate for package clients.
parameter
(current-package-client client) → void? client : package-client?
=
(make-package-client (string->url "https://pkgs.racket-lang.org"))
A parameter that defines the package client used by package-analysis. By default, a client for the official package catalog is
used.
procedure
(make-package-client catalog) → package-client?
catalog : url?
Constructs a new package client for catalog.