Re: cl-defgeneric vs random funcall in project.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/10/2015 11:45 AM, João Távora wrote:

> But
> I agree it should be possible to implement grep-project and to get the
> dirs it needs from a single interface in project.el

I see no technical obstacles there.

> * For the other 5% I'll try to make the projects themselves conform to
>    some other standard representation that some other project backend
>    automatically understands, i.e. I would rename targets of Makefiles
>    and relocate dependencies if that helped some hypothetocal backend
>    (that I assume is well designed)

To be honest, I'm not sure how to better serve this use case.

Either someone will have to write another backend (or several) that 
target different build systems, or the VC backend will have to be 
equipped with a pluggable facility for reading project files.

Some combination of the two will probably turn out to be optimal.