Re: Should EDE use project.el [PATCH]

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 18:09:38 +0200
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >Do you use it? CEDET, I mean. If yes, this can be a beneficial 
> >direction to go in. My observations say it's only falling out of 
> >favor, though.
> >
> Actually I don't know how to use it properly yet. I just tried this
> because I tried something with gtags and I found that it has its own
> backend for global/gtags BUT un-optimized and tramp and similes fail (as
> expected).
> 
> The last commit in their git repo was in 2019 and it seems to be almost
> totally unmaintained (in a quick test I found some issues
> immediately)... which means I am not even sure if there is anyone still
> using it.
> 
> So my first recommendation would be to remove/deprecate it in favor of
> project.el

CEDET includes many features that project.el doesn't have (and AFAIU
is not intended to have any time soon, if at all).  Moreover, some of
those features are actively used, for example by Xref commands.  I
don't understand how we can deprecate those parts, let alone remove
them.

Maybe you only meant the parts in CEDET that handle project structure,
i.e. that overlap what project.el does.  Those parts we could perhaps
consider deprecating, especially if we can make CEDET use project.el
instead.  But AFAIR that's a very small part of what we have below
cedet/, functionality-wise.