tree-sitter-langs installs obsolete tree-sitter-0.15.0 as a dependency in Emacs 29+

[return42]

tree-sitter-langs/tree-sitter-langs.el

Line 10 in 639f392

;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25.1") (tree-sitter "0.15.0"))

Not sure where the issue is;

I have Emacs 30.1 with builtin tree-sitter.

When I install tree-sitter-langs from melpa ..

Package tree-sitter-langs is installed.

     Status: Installed in ‘tree-sitter-langs-20250727.1154/’ (unsigned). Delete
    Version: 20250727.1154
     Commit: 639f392786eb7d7e362e8f9295e9b378c56c1ed1
    Summary: Grammar bundle for tree-sitter.
   Requires: emacs-25.1, tree-sitter-0.15.0

the tree-sitter-0.15.0 dependency is also installed .. 🤷

Package tree-sitter is dependency.

     Status: Installed in ‘tree-sitter-20220212.1632/’ (unsigned).
    Version: 20220212.1632
     Commit: 909717c685ff5a2327fa2ca8fb8a25216129361c
    Summary: Incremental parsing system.
   Requires: emacs-25.1, tsc-0.18.0

which then install its tsc-0.18.0 dependency .. at the end I have an outdated tree-sitter installation ...

tree-sitter                    20220212.1632  dependency            Incremental parsing system.
tsc                            20220212.1632  dependency            Core Tree-sitter APIs.

which caused some problems that I couldn't identify for a long time because I overlooked the fact that the outdated version of tree-sitter was installed as a dependency.

[jcs090218]

Are you using MELPA-Stable? Maybe try MELPA instead. 🤔

[return42]

Are you using MELPA-Stable?

Nope .. I added ..

(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))

[return42]

Not sure / is it related to the naming? .. AFAIK in Emacs 29+ the name is treesit.el ..

;;; treesit.el --- tree-sitter utilities -*- lexical-binding: t -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2021-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Maintainer: 付禹安 (Yuan Fu) <[email protected]>
;; Keywords: treesit, tree-sitter, languages
;; Package: emacs

...

(provide 'treesit)

While tree-sitter-langs requires tree-sitter

tree-sitter-langs/tree-sitter-langs.el

Line 10 in 639f392

;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25.1") (tree-sitter "0.15.0"))

😕

[jcs090218]

treesit.el and tree-sitter.el is two separate Tree-sitter implemenations. You might only want to choose one. 🤔

[return42]

In Emacs 29+ I want to use the built-in treesit / as recommended by tree-sitter For Emacs 29+, please use the built-in integration instead

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FWIW: for now (as long tree-sitter-langs breaks my Emacs) I installed treesit-auto which only requires emacs-29.0

Package treesit-auto is installed.

     Status: Installed in ‘treesit-auto-20240511.1425/’ (unsigned). Delete
    Version: 20240511.1425
     Commit: 016bd286a1ba4628f833a626f8b9d497882ecdf3
    Summary: Automatically use tree-sitter enhanced major modes.
   Requires: emacs-29.0

[jcs090218]

You're on the right track! For treesit.el, please use treesit-auto instead of this package. This package is specifically designed for tree-sitter.el, not treesit.el.

Other options are:

• https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/treesit-langs (only downloads the bundle)
• https://github.com/kiennq/treesit-langs (similar to this repo but for treesit.el)