Re: Validating tree-sitter major modes and grammar

[Björn Bidar]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

>> On Dec 22, 2024, at 4:44 PM, Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Continuing from the tree-sitter maternity thread, I cooked up some
>>> script to go over each builtin tree-sitter mode, clone the grammars it
>>> uses, and check whether the font-lock queries are compatible with the
>>> latest version of the grammar. If everything works fine, the script
>>> adds some comment in the source file listing the version that was
>>> checked.
>> 
>> Oh that sounds very good. This could be a good workaround for the sort
>> of fast and lose nature of tree-sitter.
>> 
>
> Great. Do you think the “verified version” comment will be helpful for 
> packagers?
>

It would be helpful in case something goes wrong as a kind of sanity
check but it won't help much for an indicator when to update since I
don't think that would be blocker for updating.

It is helpful but none the less the goal should be that such errors
should be preventable between grammar versions.