Re: Tree-sitter introduction documentation

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > 
  > >   > (setq treesit-language-source-alist
  > >   >       '((python 
"https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-python.git";)
  > >   >         (typescript 
"https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-typescript.git";
  > >   >                     "typescript/src" "typescript")))
  > > 

  > The above was an example of user customizations.  There's no such text
  > anywhere in Emacs, nor there will be.  Emacs will be distributed with
  > that variable having the nil value, and users will have to download
  > and install the grammar libraries by themselves.

That is reassuring.  It avoids the specific problem I raised concern
about.

I could not tell that that code was meant only as a possible user
customization; I thought it was a proposed patch.

                                                      The major modes we
  > distribute all use grammars whose licenses are free, and as long as we
  > take care to verify this aspect, there should be no problem here from
  > this aspect.

I agree.

  > There's a command to download and install a grammar library, but it
  > leaves it to the user to specify from where to download the library
  > the user wants.

Could you please tell me more?  Or tell me how to find that source code?

I think there is a significant difference between referring users to a
released tarball of some free program, and referring users to a
development repo of that same program.

In a purely technical sense, any bad thing that is possible with a
repo is possible with a release tarball.  However, if we consider the
social practices of using the two, I think referring users to the repo
lacks proper caution -- we shouldn't recommend it to users in general.

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