Re: {Spam?} Re: progmodes/project.el and search paths

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/07/2015 02:43 PM, David Engster wrote:

> Despite what may have been said, project.el is *not* meant to be some
> kind of "base class" for different project systems (that was at least
> what I initially thought, and which you seem to think as well). The way
> I see it, project.el is more like an adapter, although one that
> delegates the actual implementation, so something like an "abstract
> adapter".

In OOP terms, it most closely resembles an "interface".

> Dmitry and Stefan are saying that this adapter should only
> provide the information that is common to all possible project systems,
> which pretty much means "the list of files/directories that are part of
> this project".

Not necessarily. As has been touched on in a related discussion, it 
should be possible, for example, to define a fairly agnostic 
project-build-targets (or "tasks", not sure which is the more common term).

I'm sure the list can be continued.