Re: Versioned Tree-sitter parser libraries

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:41:49 -0700
> Cc: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > I don't think I understand what you suggest in practical terms.  What
> > does it mean "additional look up for only xxx.0.0"? and why only
> > xxx.0.0?
> 
> I was suggesting that we do recognize ABI versions, but since tree-sitter 
> grammars don’t really have a ABI version, and the version extension in 
> filenames are just there by convention (of Fedora), we can expect the version 
> extension to be always 0.0, should there be one.

If this will help distros, I don't mind.

But this should be limited to Posix hosts, since on Windows the story
is different, and on macOS it is also different (in another way),
AFAIR.