Re: Subprojects in project.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 25/11/22 04:38, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The idea of customizing the projects with a list of relative subproject
> > directory file names solves those downsides, but comes with lack of
> > automation: you have to do it for every relevant project, and not forget to
> > update the settings as the project structure changes. Which might also be
> > a pain e.g. when switching branches, if your dir-locals.el is not
> > checked in.
> >
> > Perhaps we'll ultimately end up with both ways to do this inside project.el,
> > but that feels redundant.
> How 'bout something more "organic":
> allow the user to interactively indicate "this is the root of the
> current project" and save that info in some customization file?
>
> IOW instead of having the users edit the customization info by hand,
> allow them to edit it indirectly when they notice that Emacs doesn't
> give the result they expected?

I don't personally like the idea of a centralized customized list of 
project roots, though I remember some project implementations back in 
the day took that approach. Not the most popular ones, though, IIRC.

Setting stuff up via dir-locals is more of my cup of tea, to be honest 
(when manual configuration is unavoidable). But we might add your way as 
well, perhaps later.