From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
michael.albinus@gmx.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Buffer-local process environments
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:42:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86zgsw1ss2.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7f9k9tl.fsf@gmail.com> (Augusto Stoffel's message of "Sat, 28 Aug 2021 14:55:34 +0200")
Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
> Many languages and build tools rely on environment variables, so those
> variables are not global, but rather local to a project. In Python, for
> instance, the standard way to choose a particular version of the
> interpreter and of various packages is by setting the PATH and perhaps
> PYTHONPATH variables. It's a dumb and simple system, which has its
> advantages.
Ada has a similar situation; GPR_PROJECT_PATH specifies the path to
search for dependent libraries, and is per-project.
> If you are working on two projects with different requirements, you need
> to either launch an Emacs instance for each project, which is the
> pedestrian option, or have buffer-local environment variables.
The GNU ELPA package wisi takes an intermediate approach; it maintains a
list of project-specific environment variables in the project object,
and let-binds them in process-environment whenever it runs a process for
the project.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-01 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-29 10:56 Buffer-local process environments Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-29 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-29 12:40 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-29 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-29 13:06 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-29 14:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-29 17:26 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-29 17:34 ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-30 7:29 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-30 7:48 ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-30 15:19 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-30 15:51 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-02 6:13 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-08 17:51 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-09 5:06 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-09 16:38 ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-28 12:28 ` [PATCH] " Augusto Stoffel
2021-08-28 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-28 12:55 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-01 10:42 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2021-09-01 10:56 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-01 22:38 ` Stephen Leake
2021-09-02 7:14 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-06 15:17 ` Stephen Leake
2021-08-28 14:06 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-28 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-28 15:27 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-28 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-28 16:48 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-28 15:39 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-08-28 16:43 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-28 12:47 ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-28 12:59 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-08-28 13:18 ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-28 13:54 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-08-28 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-28 15:19 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-30 15:32 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-30 15:55 ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-29 15:37 ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-29 17:31 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-29 17:44 ` Michael Albinus
2021-04-30 7:00 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-04-30 7:25 ` Michael Albinus
2021-05-02 13:45 ` Stephen Leake
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