Re: Tree-sitter maturity

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > Not sure whether this has been mentioned: there is a "treesit-auto"[1]
  > addon on melpa that can detect missing treesitter grammars and handle
  > their installation automatically.  It would be great if something
  > similar can be integrated into core, and if possible, grammar version
  > handling and compatibility with distribution supplied grammar would be
  > good to have.

If we add something like this to Emacs, there is an issue we need to
take care about: to make carefully sure that it does not install
any nonfree grammars.  I don't know how those grammars are released,
ir by whom, or how much they care about free software.  We can't
take for granted that they do.

Perhaps we could check automatically that the grammar found is properly
licenses, and disregard any grammars that are not free.

By contrast, if grammars are going to be packaged and released for
distros, and chosen for installation by users, then it is the user's
responsibility, not Emacs's responsibility, to reject the nonfree ones
(and the GNU/Linux distro might insist on that).

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