>> https://github.com/pre-srfi/scheme-metadata-files  has preliminary work on surveying existing formats like this and distilling a generic format. If there's agreement that this kind of direction is useful (I do agree that it is), we should figure out where to do the design and implementation work.

> I’m interested in working on this.  Specifically, I would like try.scheme.org to support this type of package so that portable Scheme libraries can be experimented with easily without having to install a Scheme system.

Great!

There are several related problems in here:

- Package metadata files.

- Package search path.

- Extending (import ...) to look inside packages.

- Library name -> file name mapping.

- General Library name rewriting.

I think all of these problems should be solved at once since they
interleave quite a bit.