Re: cl-defgeneric vs random funcall in project.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/04/2015 10:59 PM, João Távora wrote:

> You can probably
>
> (with-temp-buffer (setq default-directory DIR) (hack-dir-local-variables))
>     ...)
>
> Won't that work? I use this ocasionally for my personal horrible ad-hoc
> project  managing code (that I hope to replace with project.el eventually).

I suppose. Originally, I discarded this kind of idea as too hacky, but 
indeed, there's value in limiting ourselves to .dir-locals.el here.

To continue this line of thought, would you say the variables should 
have global meaning (meaning all project backends should honor them), or 
should they be only used in the VC project backend?

I've been leaning towards the latter, but project-vc-ignores is a pretty 
terrible name, in this context.