bug#61223: 29.0.60; treesit--install-language-grammar-build-recipe refers github

[Ruijie Yu]

On Feb 2, 2023, at 14:19, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> X-Debbugs-CC: eliz@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
> --text follows this line--
> I noticed that treesit-install-language-grammar now automatically builds
> the repository url from github:
> 
> (let ((repo-default (format "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-%s"; 
> lang)))
>      (read-string
>       "Enter the URL of the Git repository of the language grammar: "
>       (and (treesit--check-repo-url repo-default) repo-default)))
> 
> 
> AFAICT GNU don’t want to promote/refer to github, that’s why I didn’t
> include “official” grammar repositories in
> treesit-language-source-alist. Was there a discussion that I missed?
> 
> This is a nice feature, but I’d hate having to remove it later, after
> users have noticed it and started using/depending on it, due to some GNU
> policy.
> 
> Yuan

Hello Yuan, 

I think this is the result of installing the proposed patch from bug#61051, 
which Eli approved and Dmitry installed.  I had my doubts on the github 
reference but didn’t ask back then. 

Best, 


RY