Re: Tree-sitter maturity

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 23:32:28 -0500
> 
>   > > Ideally, users should be able install the grammars separately, perhaps
>   > > using their `make install' or `apt', and Emacs would only use them
>   > > where they normally get installed.  That is ideal because it is not
>   > > very integrated -- it preserves modularity.  In particular, it assures
>   > > that the details of how they get installed are not a direct concern of
>   > > Emacs maintenance.
> 
>   > Emacs needs to be built with the tree-sitter library to support the
>   > modes based on it, and the grammar library needs to be installed.
> 
> That makes sense, but are we talking about two different issues?  I
> though we were talking about various grammars, each for some specific
> language to be parsed.  When you say "the grammar library", does it
> mean those same grammars?

Yes.  A tree-sitter grammar is a small shared library.