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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> Cc: chad <yandros@gmail.com>,  luangruo@yahoo.com,  casouri@gmail.com,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 03:54:05 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 09:37:04 -0400
> >> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> 
> >> If I want to build a changed tree-sitter language definition myself,
> >> the second-ish step is "install Node.js", and
> >> I stop there. (Whether this is a sign of taste or curmudgeonliness
> >> is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
> >
> > We are not talking about changing the language definitions, we are
> > talking about installing the ones provided by tree-sitter.  
> 
> Language definitions are not "provided by tree-sitter". They are
> provided by other projects that use/support tree-sitter.

OK, "provided by the tree-sitter site".

> Such projects typically provide language parsers for several
> IDEs. And they typically provide binary installs.

The ones available from the tree-sitter site are in source form.