Re: progmodes/project.el and search paths

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/04/2015 10:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It is not what?  There are 2 parts to that sentence, which one are you
> refuting (or confirming)?

Confirming both, more or less.

> If you are saying that both parts of what I said are correct, then why
> did you and Stephen spend so many time discussing how to define those
> pieces of information for a project?  It shouldn't be part of the job;
> instead, you should look at what information is provided as part of
> defining a project by different means out there, for example, in a
> Makefile.

Some of that discussion was misunderstandings, some of it was arguing 
about semantics, and some of it was arguing about what's the best way to 
present a certain information in the API. There are many ways to present 
the same information.

We've certainly discussed different project files and information 
contained (or missing) in them. Not Makefiles, though.

> E.g., there are a couple of standard ways to specify in a Makefile the
> directories where the project's files live.  Other significant parts
> of a project's information in a Makefile are recipes to build the
> project, to install/uninstall it, to clean the tree, etc.  Also,
> various standard commands, like compilation command, link command, a
> command that creates a library and a manual, etc.
>
> These are all clear candidates for "project information an interested
> Lisp program would like to extract", no?

I can't easily answer that. What's the use for "command that creates a 
manual" (even setting aside the fact that not all projects have that)? 
Calling it in M-x project-create-manual, a command that only does that 
one thing? Not very interesting, IMHO.