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

[João Távora]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Stephen Leake
<address@hidden> wrote:
> João Távora <address@hidden> writes:
>> I suppose. I tried, but not very hard, ede.el in the past. The reason
>> I didn't try very hard is that it scared me. If I recall pcorrectly,
>> there a lot to setup, new concepts to learn... and a funnyly named
>> file to edit:
>
> EDE has gotten better, and the developers are still actively improving it.

I (require 'ede) in a recentish trunk and tried (ede-project-root) only to
find out that it requires an argument, and I couldn't make out how to
pass it something like `ede-guess-current-project'`. How can I do that?

In project.el, which I just tried for the first time, `project-root'
also requires
and argument, but it was rather trivial to find that `project-current` returns
one, and it works for 90% of my projects, which are git-based.

It's enough for me to throw away my

(defun joaot/vc-get-vc-dir-or-die (&optional dont-die)
  (or (locate-dominating-file default-directory ".git")
      (and (not dont-die)
           (error "Could not find git project dir from here (~a)"
                    default-directory))))

and I'm sure it'll work on many more situations. And Dmitry seems to be
working on functionality (xref) that makes my

(defun joaot/vc-rgrep (regexp) ...)

the most useful of my commands, not only obsolete, but ridiculously
limited in comparison.

> I believe the current development version of EDE meets these goals, or
> at least desires to (except for the name of the project description
> file).
>
> In particular, the user guide has been much improved.

I believe you and I've only very briefly skimmed it. It seems, though, to
be aimed at "creating projects". I'm interested in a tool that understands
existing projects. Or in tools that help me develop those tools.

> Both the Emacs bundled version and the SourceForge development version
> of EDE are a little broken right now, because of the eieio and
> cl-generic changes in Emacs master. So you should wait a while before
> trying it again.

That doesn't help EDE's case :-). But OK.

-- 
João Távora