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

[Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>]

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.

It was interesting to me to discover that our own documentation does not
know how to handle bitbake syntax.