Problem: Neovim bundles treesitter parsers for bash and python but does
not use them by default. This dilutes the messaging about the bundled
parsers being required for functionality or reasonable out-of-the-box
experience. It also increases the risk of query incompatibilities for no
gain.
Solution: Stop bundling bash and python parser and queries.
`GIT_REPOSITORY` will cause cmake to rebuild if local dependency
changes, which isn't the case for `URL`.
Also document how to test a different commits of a dependency.
This will reduce friction as developers no longer need to provide a hash
when testing out different commits.
To skip the hash check, set `DEPS_IGNORE_SHA` to `TRUE` in
`cmake.deps/CMakeLists.txt`.
Since 0007aa50bd the build unsets all URL
variable immediately when USE_EXISTING_SRC_DIR is TRUE, which is
correct. However, this causes the function BuildTSParser to break down
as cmake functions aren't traditionally equipped to deal with empty
variables. Using cmake_parse_arguments fixes this issue.
This will reduce required boilerplate, but more importantly it will
automatically unset variables ending on URL. This will help people
needing to avoid to unset the URL variable each time a new dependency is
added.
It is possible that this may remove a non-download variable ending on
"URL" in the future, however, the risk of this is likely much lower than
the risk of someone forgetting to unset the variable.
This makes it easier to see that -D is referring to the entire
"<variable>=<value>", rather than only <variable>. It also help syntax
highlighters highlight built-in variables.
There are a number of cmake variables and cache variables that need to
be passed to all dependencies. This is not only cumbersome, but also
fragile as it's easy to miss adding or removing a flag from a dependency
by accident. Introducing a global variable that controls all builds
makes it much easier to handle our dependencies.
Also fixes the currently broken release workflow as we need to pass the
CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES variable to all dependencies built with cmake.
59d5f692f removed cmake.deps/cmake/DownloadAndExtractFile.cmake and
support for USE_EXISTING_SRC_DIR. The Ubuntu nightly PPA still relies
on USE_EXISTING_SRC_DIR functionality since it can't access the network
during the build.
Supplying an empty value for ExternalProject_Add()'s URL value appears
to provide the needed mechanism to avoid re-downloading when the sources
are already present. This is undocumented behavior, though, so it may
break in the future.
Now, if USE_EXISTING_SRC_DIR is set, the ExternalProject's URL variable
is unset, preventing the download and erroring out if the source doesn't
actually exist.
DownloadAndExtractFile.cmake was initially introduced as a workaround to
avoid the massive amounts of logs generated by the download progress.
This is not a problem anymore as ExternalProject_Add has had the
DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS option since cmake version 3.1.
The @error capture is used for tree-sitter's ERROR node, which indicates
a parsing error -- which can be quite frequent (and jarring) while typing.
Users can still manually `hi link @error Error` in their config.
Problem:
Dirs "config", "packaging", and "third-party" are all closely related
but this is not obvious from the layout. This adds friction for new
contributors.
Solution:
- rename config/ to cmake.config/
- rename test/config/ to test/cmakeconfig/ because it is used in Lua
tests: require('test.cmakeconfig.paths').
- rename packaging/ to cmake.packaging/
- rename third-party/ to cmake.deps/ (parallel with .deps/)
