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

[Yuan Fu]

> On Oct 3, 2022, at 8:56 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

I agree.