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: dmitry@gutov.dev,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>>   stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org
>> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:27:50 +0000
>> 
>> 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
>
> I was responding to the suggestion to download release tarballs.

Then I misunderstood you, my argument is just that we could avoid
grammar versioning issues by fetching specific revisions (be it by
commits or by releases), and that we don't even have to use git for
that.