From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: progmodes/project.el and search paths Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:42:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55BE209F.1000009@siege-engine.com> <55BE509B.2080307@yandex.ru> <87r3nkjxby.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <87h9ogyq6s.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <87d1z3zd20.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438819236 30092 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2015 00:00:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 00:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eric Ludlam , Dmitry Gutov , Emacs Development To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 06 02:00:24 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 1ZN8bf-0003qM-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 02:00:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN8be-0003ww-H3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37600) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN8bO-0003sa-1p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN8bK-0008Gw-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:39604) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZN8bK-0008Ec-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2015 20:00:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.DIT.UMontreal.CA (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t76009kQ029232; Wed, 5 Aug 2015 20:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 21439AE14F; Wed, 5 Aug 2015 19:59:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87d1z3zd20.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> (David Engster's message of "Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:13:27 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5389=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5389> : inlines <3559> : streams <1483695> : uri <2006420> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:188470 Archived-At: > 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. Yes, it's very limited, simply because there hasn't be any other such "other package" which required something else. As mentioned I can see things like "flymake" imposing extra requirements (mostly a new method to compile some file(s) and return the corresponding compilation messages). Stefan