Re: [PATCH] Project out of sources compilation

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

Adding Mohsin Kaleem to the discussion.


On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 07:05:20PM GMT, Ergus wrote:
>Hi Juri:
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>Give a look to this:
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>https://github.com/mohkale/projection
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>It seems similar to what we may consider to support in vanilla. OR at
>least provide the interactive interface wrapper functions in order to
>make project.el a bit more standard.
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>On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 04:44:36AM GMT, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>>Hi Ergus!
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>>On 06/04/2024 05:05, Ergus wrote:
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>>>Here I attach a new patch with what I think is the best approach to
>>>handle the extra info for projects. This implementation is pretty simple
>>>for both sides (user, project.el and backends) and uses your main idea
>>>of the generics + a custom.
>>>
>>>However I decided not to use only the custom as you suggested, because
>>>considering the project initialization it will require a complex and
>>>error prone approach to initalize the backend variables correctly (for
>>>example, when some buffers are already open).
>>>
>>>With this implementation the backends only need to define the optional
>>>generic specializations and the policy is pretty simple to explain (see
>>>the doc strings).
>>>
>>>I also modifies the backend project on github to match this new api, so,
>>>you can check it as well.
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>>How about the idea with the orthogonal hook, then, as in the 
>>attached patch? Something I described before.
>>
>>I think your github code would be easy enough to adapt to use it.
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>>WDYT?
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