On Tue., Oct. 11, 2022, 6:26 p.m. Po Lu, <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> > That's easy to fix: make tree-sitter a required dependency.
> > No need to maintain our own version of it.
> >
> > If/when tree-sitter becomes unmaintained, we may decide to revisit this
> > choice, but I see no reason to cross this bridge in the foreseeable
> future.
>
> Once again, famous last words.
>
> Emacs currently has no dependencies other than system libraries:
> terminfo/termcap/curses.  As a result, it builds out of the box on AIX
> with the XL C compiler.


Just curious. Is it important more important to keep emacs easy to build on
a closed-source system or potentially improve/modernize its internals?