From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA? Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:56:54 +0300 Message-ID: <837d1gzyrd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6AC1140D-C4BA-4A39-9474-F127CF79DF28@gmail.com> <87pmfa4xib.fsf@yahoo.com> <83ill2agtf.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfk61gf8.fsf@gnu.org> <83a66e17gb.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17858"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: yandros@gmail.com, luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuan Fu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 03 18:12:53 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ofO3p-0004XE-In for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:12:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32962 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofO3o-0007hk-6o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:12:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37470) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofNoT-0005e8-1J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofNoS-0005CA-Od; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:57:00 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=kX2yZC/rPH96sBV4GODZSHKb2vnMoR9QIAfooGFCzAo=; b=ZYpSKW+aFMKp5gR4S8qn tQ1j4cd9AtTCt+2bo0N4WNuDoYcwWW1AOclMqvHtZAzFfu5rTmgl7m+hj6mA8rjsKd/KYidQfyMta QQolaHIC1CIIFVktMaZfPCUYr9hCK8qyhUtmX5HB+KdSUPwIeNpPXxTNm6tyn1CdI19i6IF0Uqtv3 K573YXlQ1O2VVgdYn5l8awd/DeSoah0/HEE1xzM1FI9d3P5NJqnPOL6sYz9MVd0Ex6f0CyTRaW8jR w1+40ZNHO5hI5eOaS7i12wakUlzN7ljEl++seRYzwZ+wroMc4Uv4Hts+istwDpxEEZF9Cbvlb9Zxm I7lV04ucfIwUug==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3228 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ofNoS-0005E0-71; Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:57:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuan Fu on Sun, 2 Oct 2022 15:17:35 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:296761 Archived-At: > From: Yuan Fu > Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 15:17:35 -0700 > Cc: chad , > Po Lu , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Yes. I don't think it's fair to expect the Emacs project to provide > > such degree of hand-holding. It would place too much burden on our > > insufficient resources. > > > > If downloading and building the tree-sitter language definitions is > > too much for many users, I expect the Emacs distros to provide > > prebuilt packages for that. > > I brought this up because someone suggested to bundle language definitions with Emacs for better access. If we decide to not provide hand-holding, I don’t mind doing less work ;-) I think at least at first we should not make this our job. We could revisit that decision later, based on actual experience and user feedback, but up front I don't see why we should do this as part of the Emacs project.