Re: [PATCH] Project out of sources compilation

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 01/04/2024 16:52, Ergus wrote:
> > So having direct support for this in project.el would be quite welcome,
> > so I can use that instead of my private hacks.
> Projectile already have support for many backends and the implementation
> is pretty clean. I am doing this because I thing that something so basic
> must be part of vanilla.

Speaking of Projectile, it has this block of definitions of "project 
types". Which could maybe better called "build tool types" in the 
context of this discussion.

It would be nice if we could port them over to a design which would be 
useable by both Projectile and project.el (and together with other 
project.el backends), rather than having every project backend 
re-implement these settings, or re-enumerate the supported types.

That's why the idea of orthogonal APIs seems appealing to me (the 
current one for file listing and root finding; the new one for build 
tools, and compiling, and running, I guess).

Until we've drawn up some design for the latter, though, maybe a 
customizable function variable will suffice.