Re: Subprojects in project.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'll just mention that sub-projects have been haunting me for years in
> Projectile, so you definitely will want to think long and hard about their
> implementation as people tend to have all sorts of setups. Sometimes I even
> wonder if it's worth it to try to support every use-case possible as it's
> definitely a path of growing complexity and diminishing returns. 

Thanks for that background.  Personally, as a mere user of `project.el`
I wonder about the meaning of "subproject".  Are we talking about two
*separate* projects that "happen" to be layed out in the filesystem in
such a way that one is in a subdir of the other, or are we really
talking about a situation where some project operations (but not all)
will operate on "the project and its subprojects", which would then beg
the question of how to decide which operations do that (and when).


        Stefan