Re: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes

[Po Lu]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> That's easy to fix: make tree-sitter a required dependency.
> No need to maintain our own version of it.
>
> If/when tree-sitter becomes unmaintained, we may decide to revisit this
> choice, but I see no reason to cross this bridge in the foreseeable future.

Once again, famous last words.

Emacs currently has no dependencies other than system libraries:
terminfo/termcap/curses.  As a result, it builds out of the box on AIX
with the XL C compiler.

It does not depend on gnutls, HarfBuzz, Cairo, or even libraries that
really are available everywhere such as XCB.  Why require tree-sitter?