Re: Tree-sitter maturity

[Daniel Colascione]

On December 29, 2024 4:24:11 AM EST, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 04:14:37 -0500
>> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
>> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> The grammars don't make any backwards compatibility guarantees. There have 
>> been multiple Emacs bugs arising from grammars unilaterally changing 
>> terminal names and such. ISTM the only way to guarantee compatibility is to 
>> vendor the whole stack.
>
>I hope that, as the use of tree-sitter and the grammars increases, the
>distros will work with the grammar developers so that the latter get
>their act together and start producing more dependable releases with
>clear versioning and library compatibilities.

Is hope a strategy?