Re: find-file-project

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09/16/2015 05:13 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:

> > > And this is ridiculous. Emacs obviously isn't a "flat" project.
> >
> > I don't know what you mean by "a flat project".

It's not an Ada project.

> > load-path is neither purely flat (cedet requires recursion) nor purely
> > recursive (it has both emacs/lisp and emacs/lisp/progmodes etc). So it
> > has to be converted one way or another.

"emacs/lisp and emacs/lisp/progmodes" is not a good counter-argument.

search-path may have entries where one is a subdirectory of another, but 
each such entry is "recursive" anyway (we have to consider all files 
inside each respective tree). When search path used for file traversal, 
the caller will simply have to filter out the entries that are redundant 
for its purposes.

> And the user has to provide additional information as to what parts are
> flat vs recursive, for the conversion to be done properly.

I don't see that. If you need this complexity, just use the "recursive" 
format (it's more powerful), and specify any exclusions via ignores.

> For example, SourceForge CEDET contains the "cogre" directory under
> "cedet". Since that is not part of Emacs core yet, if I'm testing
> SourceForge Emacs prior to a merge with Emacs core, it is not
> appropriate to include "cogre" in the project search path.

Well, ignore it, then.