Re: progmodes/project.el and search paths

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/05/2015 06:23 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Again, sounds silly, given how most, if not all, modern build tools
> work.

That is counter to my experience. The modern build tools work in a 
variety of different ways.

> But (shrug) not a catastrophe: the corresponding attribute will simply
> be nil, or the command to build everything.

And I don't understand what you mean here.

> IOW, I see no problem here, and no reasons to consider this unfit for
> the API.

It's fit. As soon as we're sure someone is going to write a Lisp program 
making use of this part of the API. And by "sure", I mean we have at 
least a proof-of-concept patch for a non-trivial piece of functionality.

> I don't think you have this luxury when you work on infrastructure.

I don't think anyone here has the authority to tell me what to spend 
time on.

> E.g., company.el is "not very interesting" for me, but I still try
> very hard to fix every issue in the display engine that you or your
> users report.

You don't work on adding new features to it, however.

> Yes.  They are both no-brainers to have in the infrastructure that
> AFAIU you are trying to provide.  It might even be much more useful to
> a Lisp program that only cares about the manual of a project.

It makes sense to go for features with bigger impact first.