Re: Tree-sitter maturity

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:05:47 -0500
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org, philipk@posteo.net, rms@gnu.org, manphiz@gmail.com
> 
> >> Why not just vendor all the grammars with the Emacs modes that use them?
> >
> >We'd need to ask their developers to agree to this. 
> 
> Why? They're free software. For copyright assignment? Seems like an exception 
> would make sense here.

AFAIK, that was the policy until now: we should have written agreement
by authors to include any code in Emacs.  RMS might know more, because
he asked for that.

> > Other than that,
> >I don't see how is that different from pointing to a specific version
> >of each grammar: both will be outdated a short time after we point to
> >the version or release Emacs with that version.
> >
> >So why do you think this is better?
> 
> Vendoring enables building a full featured Emacs without a network connection 
> and guarantees build reproducibility in perpetuity.

Is a network connection really a serious problem nowadays?