Re: [docs] [RFC PATCH 1/2] add a "bitbake" pygments lexer

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Wed Apr 22, 2026 at 9:33 PM CEST, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On Wed 2026-04-22 @ 01:15:24 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>> On Wed 2026-04-22 @ 08:55:39 AM, Antonin Godard wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > On Tue Apr 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM CEST, Trevor Woerner via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > > +# Pygments does not ship a BitBake lexer, so this Sphinx extension provides
>> > > +# one.
>> > 
>> > Have you considered contributing this lexer to Pygments instead? I would rather
>> > have it there than having to maintain it here.
>> 
>> All development on Pygments occurs on github: https://github.com/pygments/pygments
>> Currently there are 143 open pull requests: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/pulls
>> (some going back to 2019)
>> However, the latest release was 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases
>> 
>> I will create a pull request for this feature and see where it goes. The
>> contributor information for the Pygments project is very clear that they
>> are not interested in adding/maintaining lexers for "pet" languages.
>> 
>> https://pygments.org/docs/contributing/
>> 
>> Of course *we* are all aware of how big the community is that uses
>> bitbake, but will we be able to convince them? bitbake's usage is large,
>> but compared to, say, something like c or python... All I can do is
>> submit and see. Realistically maintaining it ourselves is a likely
>> possibility if we're interested in this feature.
>
> We'll see what they think: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/pull/3103

BitBake does not change syntax often, I would say, so once it's settled in, I
think it won't have to change that much.

Thanks for the PR! Let's see where this goes.

Antonin