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Re: Tree-sitter maturity


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Tree-sitter maturity
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:24:11 +0200

> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 04:14:37 -0500
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> The grammars don't make any backwards compatibility guarantees. There have 
> been multiple Emacs bugs arising from grammars unilaterally changing terminal 
> names and such. ISTM the only way to guarantee compatibility is to vendor the 
> whole stack.

I hope that, as the use of tree-sitter and the grammars increases, the
distros will work with the grammar developers so that the latter get
their act together and start producing more dependable releases with
clear versioning and library compatibilities.



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