Subject: Re: bug#65386: [PATCH] ; Refine some 'package-vc' docstrings

From: Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:27:54 +0000

Eshel Yaron <[email-masked]> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Mauro Aranda <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> I haven't watch this thread closely, but do note that creating dynamic
>>> choices is quite possible, if I understand correctly what you're looking
>>> for.
>>>
>>> If you can, take a look at the defcustom of completion-styles, in
>>> minibuffer.el.  Its type uses a choice with a specialized
>>> :convert-widget function to keep the choices up-to date.
>>
>> This might be exactly what we are looking for.  It should be possible to
>> adapt `completion--update-styles-options' pretty much directly to our
>> example.
>
> Mauro, thanks for the great tip.  As Philip said, this seems to be
> exactly what we need here.  Accordingly, I'm attaching an updated patch for the
> `defcustom` types (the two other patches from my previous message are
> not affected and remain applicable).

I have slightly modified it to remove the helper functions.  As
mentioned before.  Hope you are fine with it:

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el
index bf4cad4f319..dfaedbcc84c 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el
@@ -62,6 +62,18 @@ package-vc
 (defconst package-vc--elpa-packages-version 1
   "Version number of the package specification format understood by package-vc.")
 
+(defconst package-vc--backend-type
+  `(choice :convert-widget
+           ,(lambda (widget)
+              (let (opts)
+                (dolist (be vc-handled-backends)
+                  (when (or (vc-find-backend-function be 'clone)
+                            (alist-get 'clone (get be 'vc-functions)))
+                    (push (widget-convert (list 'const be)) opts)))
+                (widget-put widget :args opts))
+              widget))
+  "The type of VC backends that support cloning package VCS repositories.")
+
 (defcustom package-vc-heuristic-alist
   `((,(rx bos "http" (? "s") "://"
           (or (: (? "www.") "github.com"
@@ -103,9 +115,7 @@ package-vc-heuristic-alist
 the URL-REGEXP of the association.  If no match is found,
 `package-vc-install' uses `package-vc-default-backend' instead."
   :type `(alist :key-type (regexp :tag "Regular expression matching URLs")
-                :value-type (choice :tag "VC Backend"
-                                    ,@(mapcar (lambda (b) `(const ,b))
-                                              vc-handled-backends)))
+                :value-type ,package-vc--backend-type)
   :version "29.1")
 
 (defcustom package-vc-default-backend 'Git
@@ -116,8 +126,7 @@ package-vc-default-backend
 
 The value must be a member of `vc-handled-backends' that supports
 the `clone' VC function."
-  :type `(choice ,@(mapcar (lambda (b) (list 'const b))
-                           vc-handled-backends))
+  :type package-vc--backend-type
   :version "29.1")
 
 (defcustom package-vc-register-as-project t