impossible to build helix from tar.gz

[Pungolo]

hello. if you use the source
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/archive/refs/tags/v0.6.0.tar.gz
the build fails because the required submodules are not found with the files in the helix-syntax directory.

is it possible to upload a complete source archive?

[WindSoilder]

For now it's impossible because github doesn't provide this feature: dear-github/dear-github#214

[o3bvv]

The same is true for building from git repo: build.rs explicitly tries to build several languages which are not present in languages dir.

Commenting out tsx and ocaml-interface allows to finish the build successfully.

helix/helix-syntax/build.rs

Lines 203 to 206 in a8fd33a

	build_dir("tree-sitter-typescript/tsx", "tsx");
	build_dir("tree-sitter-typescript/typescript", "typescript");
	build_dir("tree-sitter-ocaml/ocaml", "ocaml");
	build_dir("tree-sitter-ocaml/interface", "ocaml-interface")

[kirawi]

tsx is defined in https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-typescript/tree/master/tsx
ocaml-interface is defined in https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ocaml/tree/master/interface

[sudormrfbin]

I think this can be closed now since we don't use submodules now and have #1659 ?

[the-mikedavis]

Yep with #1659, the submodules are gone and the cargo build is able to fetch and build tree-sitter grammars. #1875 was also just merged that will mean the next release will have a helix-VERSION-source.tar.xz which includes the source plus the grammar repositories already fetched.