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[PATCH] Add option for automatically delete non-existent projects.

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From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: 77566 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Subject: bug#77566: [PATCH] Add option for automatically delete non-existent projects.
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:23:29 -0600

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Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev> writes:
>
>  On 06/04/2025 03:29, Sean Whitton wrote:
>  > Thanks, though why do this only when switching projects?
>  > Why not do it proactively whenever fetching the list of projects?
>  > Performance concerns?
>
>  I'm concerned about performance, yes. With my SSD, it takes about 4ms to 
>  "clean up" ~70 projects. The number could be higher, and the hard drive 
>  could be spinning media.
>
> Yeah, that is why i originally added it only when switching projects, projectile does the same.
>
>  So could someone point out what will we get by proactively cleaning up 
>  the list, rather than doing that only when a project is being prompted for?
>
> Maybe for ensure that the zombies were removed?
>
> For example, packages that use project--list for read the projects.
>
> Instead what about purge it once after emacs startup?

Something like this patch(?), it now clean up when
project-prompt-project-name or project-prompt-project-dir are being
called and after project--list was initialized:

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