Re: [PATCH] Buffer-local process environments

[Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>]

On Wed,  1 Sep 2021 at 03:42, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:

> Ada has a similar situation; GPR_PROJECT_PATH specifies the path to
> search for dependent libraries, and is per-project.

Great, so we have some more evidence that support for project-specific
env vars is a relevant feature.

> 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.

If I understand correctly, this works only when launching the WisiToken
program, am I correct?

python.el also supports Python "virtual environments", but this only
applies when running the Python shell.  In my opinion this approach is
too limited, because one also needs the correct environment to start
other types of processes: compile, flymake, language servers, random
private user commands, etc.