Re: Tree-sitter maturity

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>, rms@gnu.org, manphiz@gmail.com,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:29:47 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > We could have done that, but there's no way we could keep the value of
> > treesit-language-source-alist up-to-date, because the grammar
> > libraries put out new versions much more frequently than Emacs
> > releases, especially if you consider libraries that have no official
> > versions at all (in which case we can only point to some revision in
> > their repository).
> 
> May this list be updated from ELPA? Via a special package or maybe via 
> compat.el.

Everything is possible, if someone volunteers to do the job.  (There's
still the question I asked whether such a package will be useful and
used by enough users, but that is secondary.)

In general, people are suggesting all kinds of semi-solutions for a
problem that has no solution, and isn't ours to solve to begin with.
I don't mind providing such semi-solutions, if someone volunteers, I'm
just pointing out their (almost obvious) downsides, so people would
not make a mistake of thinking we can solve this like we are used to
solve such problems when they are under our complete control.