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Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?
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Yuan Fu |
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Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA? |
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Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:17 -0700 |
> On Oct 11, 2022, at 1:51 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> Yuan Fu [2022-10-01 21:47:11] wrote:
>> I wonder if we can host pre-built language definitions for languages we
>> provide tree-sitter support OOTB on ELPA, so users can easily download them?
>
> [ Coming late to this discussion, sorry. ]
>
> We could consider it, but as Eli mentioned, it's not clear what we'll
> need, so I think it's best to wait. FWIW, there are similar questions
> for Emacs modules distributed via (Non)GNU ELPA (such as the `libpq`
> module), and currently we just don't do it.
>
> Note also that the native ELisp compiler brings GCC as a dependency of
> Emacs, so if that becomes the norm, we might prefer to just build the
> language definition locally from its C version (which is not actually
> its source), and maybe we'll want to host *those* i.e. the pre-digested
> language definitions in their C form.
>
> Hosting them on a gnu.org machine would make it easier to make their
> installation (semi)automatic since we usually don't like to download
> random code directly from third parties with which we have no
> shared agreement. But if the language definitions can be installed as
> Debian packages, it might not be necessary at all.
Sounds like a plan. Before we notice, they might have all the languages bundled
for emacs build ;-)
Yuan
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, (continued)
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, chad, 2022/10/02
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/02
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, Yuan Fu, 2022/10/02
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/03
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, Yuan Fu, 2022/10/04
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, chad, 2022/10/02
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, Stephen Leake, 2022/10/12
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/12
Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/02
Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?, Stefan Monnier, 2022/10/11
- Re: Hosting tree-sitter pre-built language definitions on ELPA?,
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