Re: {Spam?} Re: progmodes/project.el and search paths

[Eric Ludlam <ericludlam@gmail.com>]

On 08/05/2015 09:42 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> 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).
>

I would think that backend projects can also depend on services from a 
generic project system.  Comint provides a generic way to interact with 
a shell command.  Using comint is easier than starting from scratch and 
makes no assumptions by providing for a wide range of features that 
might be needed by sub shells.  A side effect is that every subordinate 
shell buffer in Emacs is consistent, configuring options in comint works 
everywhere, and keybindings are the same. Another side effect is that a 
you can write services that work with comint that thus work in many 
different shells.  Wouldn't it be cool if users could write things that 
feel like project management backend features that work with multiple 
back-ends.

It would be nice if the generic base project were the same.  Any project 
backend you use would have similar keybindings, menus, detection 
mechanisms, file location systems, etc because it will be easier to use 
the base support than invent something new.

Eric