bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28/11/2022 16:49, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:29:15 +0200
> > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, rudi@constantly.at, eric@ericabrahamsen.net,
> >   cjpeople2013@gmail.com, theo@thornhill.no, mardani29@yahoo.es,
> >   joaotavora@gmail.com, manuel.uberti@inventati.org, juri@linkov.net,
> >   salutis@me.com, arstoffel@gmail.com, 41572@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> >
> > > > But if we just compare with the other builtin ('transient'), then its
> > > > VC awareness is probably the key thing. And the customization options it
> > > > has (which 'transient' doesn't).
> > > AFAIU, the 'transient' builtin also works with projects whose shape is a
> > > directory tree, right?  If so, how is 'transient' different from the
> > > 'VC-aware' type?
> >
> > That's right.
>
> So you are saying that 'VC-aware' is like 'transient', but it will use a VCS
> if it's available?  Then I guess 'VC-aware' is a good name for it.

I suppose so. Great!

> > So if we are comparing against 'transient' only, then VC awareness is
> > probably the key thing. And the customization options.
>
> Do we have other types to compare against?

I mentioned Projectile a few messages ago.

It's a popular alternative that, with the last release, also plugs into 
project-find-functions and thus works as a new project.el backend.

But it's third-party.