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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/10/2015 10:21 PM, João Távora wrote:

> That's what I suspected, but Stephen said that you don't like it. I mistakenly
> took that as a suggestion that you wouldn't add the functionality to support
> it.

There's no way I even could do that: grep-project would use the same 
project- methods as xref-find-regexp does now.

> > 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.
>
> I agree. But I think you misunderstood me, these particular 5% are the ones
> where you're "off-the-hook",

Well, you mentioned Makefile targets, and we don't do anything with 
those, so far. There's no "default" project structure which you could 
adapt your projects for, except for "a root directory with files in it", 
and depending on the language, etc, we might have to several of those.