Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 15:17:35 -0700
> Cc: chad <yandros@gmail.com>,
>  Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
>  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.