Re: Subprojects in project.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 26/11/22 02:00, João Távora wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>  writes:
>
> > Even when there are just 2 of them, it's 2x the initial delay, which
> > can already be noticeable with Tramp. E.g. my ping to the "mainland"
> > is around 100ms. And filesystem operations might take several
> > roundtrips.
> If you want to use subprojects over TRAMP and the super-project and the
> sub-project are both identified by marker files files, then it's not
> something we can avoid.  IOW we do just as many marker-file probes as
> needed: you pay for what you get.  If the user wants out of the bargain,
> he can customize one of the search functions to give up in TRAMP
> contexts.

We aren't even close to top efficiency WRT file operations now. And your 
idea is also based on hand-crafting project-find-functions to only 
contain the necessary items.

As opposed to real-life scenario of Projectile just adding its function 
at the front.

> > I don't entirely understand the algorithm you're proposing here, but
> > it sounds vaguely like what I'm writing now, so you might like the
> > result.
> Where/when can I find this code?

You and others can now find it here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/41572#186