Re: Tree-sitter maturity

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > We could have done that, but there's no way we could keep the value of
>> > treesit-language-source-alist up-to-date...
>> 
>> May this list be updated from ELPA? Via a special package or maybe via compat.el.
>
> Everything is possible, if someone volunteers to do the job.  (There's
> still the question I asked whether such a package will be useful and
> used by enough users, but that is secondary.)

To be clear, I mostly wanted to show that keeping the value up to date
is not impossible (contrary to your assertion).
Whether it is a viable practical option is another question. But the
idea should not be rejected outright.

> In general, people are suggesting all kinds of semi-solutions for a
> problem that has no solution, and isn't ours to solve to begin with.
> I don't mind providing such semi-solutions, if someone volunteers, I'm
> just pointing out their (almost obvious) downsides, so people would
> not make a mistake of thinking we can solve this like we are used to
> solve such problems when they are under our complete control.

Fair.

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