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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05.10.2021 18:21, Nikolay Kudryavtsev wrote:
> It's mostly to somewhat empower people to add new backends.

It's not too difficult to do even now.

> But being to chose backend order is helpful too, since lets say I'm a 
> major mode developer. I add my project type to the end of the list. Then 
> someone says "hey, my VC structure is non-standard so the project gets 
> detected wrongly" and I can just point the user to reorder his list.

As long as major mode developers don't do that, it's probably fine.

But you can provide a backend of your own

> I don't think we should worry about the user experience getting worse 
> too much, since anyone touching project-find-functions should know what 
> they're doing.

I wouldn't be so sure. Especially if you tell your users to do that.

But let's talk about "your project type". Is it an existing backend? 
What kind of projects are we talking about? Does it optimize the file 
listing performance?