Subject: Re: bug#18476: 24.3.93; ede-emacs-version: Searching for program: no such file or directory, egrep

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:05:40 -0400

> The "real" fix was that EDE now parses the Project.ede files if it
> actually contains a project definition. However, that code which does
> the parsing isn't really trivial, so we also added
> `ede-project-directories' with 'nil' as default. The idea was that when
> people create their own projects, those should get added
> semi-automatically, but if you wanted to load external ones, you'd have
> to add those directories by hand.

OK, if it doesn't end up taking some of that data and passing it to
`eval' or pushing it onto a hook or somesuch, then it's OK.

>> By the way, looking at the code of ede-emacs-version, we need to fix all
>> those "match-string without checking the success of the previous
>> re-search-forward".
> Yes, definitely. I can do that, but at least for the emacs-24 branch I
> wanted to keep the patch short.

OK, sounds fair.  Please install the patch.

        Stefan