Re: A unified project root interface

[Jorgen Schaefer]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:13:10 +0100
Jorgen Schaefer <address@hidden> wrote:

> I did a quick implementation of my current ideas on the topic:
> 
> https://raw.github.com/jorgenschaefer/project-el/master/project.el
> 
> Quick run-down:
> 
> - If you only want to know the project root, you call (project-root)
>   and never have to worry about anything else.
> - This will call functions in `project-guess-root-functions' until one
>   returns a non-nil value. This value is cached for future calls.
> - The default functions use the current EDE project if any, or VC
>   directory markers, or ask the user; can be extended as needed.
> - When an extension provides a way to change the project root, they
>   can call `project-set-root', which will run
>   `project-root-changed-hook' so that other extensions (e.g. EDE) can
>   intercept that and adjust themselves accordingly. Or even throw an
>   error.
> 
> Other extensions should be able to build on that.

As the discussion died down: What would be the next step here?

Regards,
        -- Jorgen