From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: progmodes/project.el and search paths Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 18:31:35 +0300 Message-ID: <55C22C57.9070307@yandex.ru> References: <55BE209F.1000009@siege-engine.com> <55BE509B.2080307@yandex.ru> <87r3nkjxby.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <55BF7619.1050701@yandex.ru> <87mvy8jvlh.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <55BF8522.4010009@yandex.ru> <87lhdsys13.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <55BFF764.2030002@yandex.ru> <83mvy7tbit.fsf@gnu.org> <55C0FEEB.7040500@yandex.ru> <83h9oeudfs.fsf@gnu.org> <55C1074E.90103@yandex.ru> <83d1z2uach.fsf@gnu.org> <55C11D54.9090105@yandex.ru> <83bnemtpop.fsf@gnu.org> <55C1DA6F.1000209@yandex.ru> <83zj25sqsl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438788738 20251 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2015 15:32:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 15:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, deng@randomsample.de, eric@siege-engine.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 17:32:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN0fo-000068-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:32:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40942 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN0fo-0005IN-09 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:32:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN0fS-0005Ht-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN0fN-00008H-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:31:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::22a]:35230) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN0fM-00007s-OB; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:31:40 -0400 Original-Received: by labkb6 with SMTP id kb6so9416387lab.2; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:31:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wn83gImIJJ1CKK3RC6tXSy9F+H3MxDSBpwFXhc685yo=; b=LASdbCRLTvtBG7c5T5ScmuCR83WiQPav3vLi546O47joQqjsnUVgMeU9H7WR2gD3R2 /8Hn4jEMHAQC1G9mdYn8CyRK1oLbFseTeKQxqkf8MbT20lZW4ZaprgD2CwJ4yehC8+Va I89JThrS3rZkuDDmbln4GtWvk3sfVWoU/K9DVI8BsxjBIxWY2MjBjjQ37DAA/61xprbl 6v3EkvmXsmCJd1xCVx5iyTjTyZ5UTBhcBZy9EwkVDnOSNHPSwLP/rvtyvAZxlxRdiJI+ 8xi2PtPn4uzhIzYDPR1kVNQnGYpDYI0G0qfc4cVHeRDDm/ghjvVAw+aHrgkA5W9t1EXu pm3Q== X-Received: by 10.112.186.35 with SMTP id fh3mr9706033lbc.82.1438788699852; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.9.0.103] (nat.webazilla.com. [78.140.128.228]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id bn2sm621810lbc.47.2015.08.05.08.31.38 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Aug 2015 08:31:39 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/40.0 In-Reply-To: <83zj25sqsl.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::22a X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:188448 Archived-At: On 08/05/2015 06:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Again, sounds silly, given how most, if not all, modern build tools > work. That is counter to my experience. The modern build tools work in a variety of different ways. > But (shrug) not a catastrophe: the corresponding attribute will simply > be nil, or the command to build everything. And I don't understand what you mean here. > IOW, I see no problem here, and no reasons to consider this unfit for > the API. It's fit. As soon as we're sure someone is going to write a Lisp program making use of this part of the API. And by "sure", I mean we have at least a proof-of-concept patch for a non-trivial piece of functionality. > I don't think you have this luxury when you work on infrastructure. I don't think anyone here has the authority to tell me what to spend time on. > E.g., company.el is "not very interesting" for me, but I still try > very hard to fix every issue in the display engine that you or your > users report. You don't work on adding new features to it, however. > Yes. They are both no-brainers to have in the infrastructure that > AFAIU you are trying to provide. It might even be much more useful to > a Lisp program that only cares about the manual of a project. It makes sense to go for features with bigger impact first.