New release for 0.16.x series?

[claytonrcarter]

I know that this sort of backwards, but is there any chance we could beg for a release that is built against tree-sitter 0.16 (or any version w/ ABI version <=12)? I've been working on updating Atom's PHP grammar with tree-sitter support, but Atom currently only supports ABI <=12 (I think), and that limits me to using 0.16.2 of tree-sitter-php, which of course lacks all of the goodies that @cfroystad has been working on recently for #58.

There is a blocked PR to update Atom to tree-sitter 0.19, but it looks like it's gone a bit stale. While we wait for that, though, having a BC release against tree-sitter 0.16 would give me the tools to fill in much more of that grammar w/ arrow functions, nullsafe, union types, etc, making it more likely it could be considered for release.

For the record, on current master I was able to successfully downgrade tree-sitter-cli, regenerate and pass all tests:

$ npm i tree-sitter-cli@0.16

$ ./node_modules/.bin/tree-sitter generate

$ grep 'LANGUAGE_VERSION ' src/parser.c
#define LANGUAGE_VERSION 11

$ ./node_modules/.bin/tree-sitter test
# ... all tests passed

Thanks for at least considering this!

[cfroystad]

@maxbrunsfeld I guess you're the only one who can answer this one 🙂

As a side note: If you could either point me to relevant documentation or describe the current release process, I'd like to look into automating building and pushing updated releases of tree-sitter-php whenever tagged

[claytonrcarter]

With the sunset of Atom, this is no longer an issue.