Re: Managing environments (Python venv, guix environment, etc.)

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07/24/2016 11:25 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> > If it's strictly "prompt the user", that might be incompatible with
> > the way project.el determines the current project.
>
> That's something we can determine. I was thinking a dir-local would be
> ideal.

If it's going to be strictly directory-dependent, project.el integration 
could work. But then, I don't know if you want to tie environment 
detection to particular project implementations, such as vc-project 
(which is only used when there's a VCS repository).

> If proper virtualenvs support turns out to require changes to core
> Emacs, it can't be distributed (solely) via GNU ELPA.
>
> It's possible it might even require hacking on the C implementation of
> the process primitives to do properly. (which I'm perfectly happy to do)

Guess we'll have to see.