Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Maybe we're taking a wrong approach towards tree-sitter

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> Cc: r12451428287@163.com,  manuel@ledu-giraud.fr,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:55:46 -0700
> 
> >> I don't know what you mean by "the TS library".
> >
> > I mean libtree-sitter.a produced by building the library.
> >
> >> I'm guessing you mean the tree-sitter runtime, in which case no, that
> >> does not include any languages.
> >
> > "Include" in what sense?
> 
> There is no code in libtree-sitter.a that provides a language; all
> languages are built separately, by the language developers.
> 
> https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter builds libtree-sitter.a, and
> the command line tools to build a language.
> 
> https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-python builds the object file
> providing the python language.
> 
> There are many other languages, each with its own repository.

We are talking past each other.  But I don't think we should keep
arguing about this, because there's no real disagreement here to argue
about.