Re: progmodes/project.el and search paths

[Stephen Leake]

David Engster <address@hidden> writes:

> Dmitry Gutov writes:
>> On 08/05/2015 06:08 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>>> If EDE finds this useful, what doubt is there that other Lisp programs
>>> will?  How many examples do we need before we decide that a specific
>>> trait of a project is "useful"?  I say one is enough (sometimes more
>>> than enough).
>>
>> A trait should be useful *and* fairly common.
>>
>> Do you see someone in a hurry to rewrite EDE on top of project.el?
>
> What does that mean? Isn't project.el always at the top, fed by various
> project backends?

As I understand it, EDE provides both project backends and build
functions that use information from the project backends.

A future refactoring of EDE could use the Emacs project.el API to
define the interface between the two.


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