Re: Is it better to add treesitter modes to core?

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  Stephen
>>  Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
>> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2024 06:15:07 +0000
>> 
>> > Possible grammar versioning problems. But the above should be small
>> > and stable enough, nor should they require many changes over the
>> > years.
>> 
>> I don't think this has to be a problem.  Last year I had suggested that
>> `treesit-install-language-grammar' should download release GitHub
>> tarballs, not just clone the repository (which requires Git, and is
>> prone to upstream breakage).
>
> Alas, this solution is incomplete, because some grammar libraries
> don't have releases at all.

Most if not all git forges should support requesting an archive for a
specific commit (basically git-archive over https).  For example, this
will provide a tarball for the current newest commit for the python
tree-sitter library:

  
https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-python/archive/4bfdd9033a2225cc95032ce77066b7aeca9e2efc.tar.gz