From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Engster Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: progmodes/project.el and search paths Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:13:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87d1z3zd20.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> References: <55BE209F.1000009@siege-engine.com> <55BE509B.2080307@yandex.ru> <87r3nkjxby.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <87h9ogyq6s.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438676048 14622 80.91.229.3 (4 Aug 2015 08:14:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eric Ludlam , Dmitry Gutov , Emacs Development To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 04 10:13:53 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 1ZMXM7-0001dz-Th for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:13:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMXM2-0005Ae-4t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 04:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39182) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMXLy-0005AZ-Ds for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 04:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMXLu-0003Te-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 04:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: from randomsample.de ([5.45.97.173]:60408) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMXLu-0003So-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 04:13:38 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=randomsample.de; s=a; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=i1wYn6ky5d25xPGdaR2CkQtDeqzRBoGQHnXKsqDvXAA=; b=VuO9mG5IzGsMBJ14PHEu1niJ/RcrV5la1GGzGRQeqivmGDhYNh02QYKF3W9rs2ryeudC5lYrI0MysdpyB4yL5Wu/FgwGwzZb71Yj5jvI17QQ3ciInOXqr3219rtxvzKT; Original-Received: from ip4d145d5e.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([77.20.93.94] helo=isaac.fritz.box) by randomsample.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMXLp-0002Sa-F8; Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:13:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 04 Aug 2015 03:13:21 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.45.97.173 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:188385 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> So the API is designed as a kind of "intersection (rather than union) of >>> all possible project systems". >> That intersection is tiny. > > Do you find this to be a problem? If so, why? It's a very limited view of a project, so other packages who want to work on a project cannot depend on much information unless they ask one backend directly. > This is not meant to replace/reimplement EDE, but only to provide > a common API between different systems, EDE being hopefully one of them. OK. Let's see how it evolves. -David