Re: A unified project root interface

["Eric M. Ludlam" <eric@siege-engine.com>]

On 03/12/2013 07:42 PM, Jorgen Schaefer wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:28:28 -0400
> "Eric M. Ludlam"<eric@siege-engine.com>  wrote:
>
>> I know some people think of EDE as being this big thing for creating
>> your Makefiles, but its most common use really is to just tag the
>> root of a project, and hang some configuration features for semantic
>> auto completion.  Adding new detectable projects to EDE would be a
>> win all around.
>
> Also extracting the project part so you can use it without depending on
> all of EDE. Right now, that seems either not doable or badly
> documented, as none of the project-based extensions I have seen actually
> uses that functionality.
>
> Regards,
> 	-- Jorgen

It's not clear to me what you mean.  When a project is detected, it 
instantiates an instance of that project for that directory.  It doesn't 
load any other projects but the one it detected.  Thus, if it finds and 
Emacs project, it loads that project type which is pretty small.  It 
doesn't load the big Makefile generating project.

If you mean that "all of EDE" represents the core EDE project classes, 
then no, you can't use the project detection piece without that.  The 
project detection code first needs to look up a project.  If a project 
is already open, it will instead find it in the list of currently open 
projects without using the file system based search.

Eric