Re: Tree-sitter introduction documentation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
>   theophilusx@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:44:02 +0000
> 
> I have asked the question before, but freedom or not, the above is a
> nuisance to run for every language.

Which is why distros should make them available, like they do with
other dependencies.

> If the process is as automatic as the above example demonstrates,
> shouldn't Emacs have a command to take a grammar and compile+install
> it?

It _is_ as simple as above (modulo the need to detect C++ sources and
use g++ in that case).  And I already said that such a command will
have its place in Emacs (and Stefan agrees, AFAIU).  So there should
be no argument anymore about the possibility; it's just a matter of
Someone sitting down and coding the darn thing.  Like everything else
in Emacs.

> What would be even better is if the grammars were to be distributed
> along with Emacs (either in a tarball or as a dependency a package
> manage would install).

Not going to happen, for the reasons I already explained several
times.  In a nutshell: we cannot and will not distribute binaries, and
distributing sources is not useful enough to justify the maintenance
headaches of distribution someone else's code.