> Maybe it’s worth putting something in an faq - that we support the intent of > the master to main naming convention That's pretty counter-productive. It would be just empty virtue-signalling response to an empty virtue-signalling gesture (that of MS/Github pushing master->main transition).
The change would bring absolutely nothing to no-one (except a lot of needless work/friction; and an inroad for future woke incursions). Whomever is having problem with slavery can fight modern-day slavery in ie. Africa / China / etc or sex trafficking in their own country. I'd prefer either nothing in the FAQ, or finite statement to the tune of "no wokeness, we are about merit and not about empty gestures". Of course I expect cowardice & virtue-signalling to win in the end, but at least I tried. M.R. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Mackinnon <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 1:14 PM To: Pharo Development List <[email protected]> Subject: [Pharo-dev] Re: Metacello / Iceberg / GitHub master to main renaming Maybe it’s worth putting something in an faq - that we support the intent of the master to main naming convention, but that as we are a small community trying to improve many aspects of 50 years of development, this one had to unfortunately take a back seat for the moment while we simplify other things to make this an easier change? Tim > On 19 Jul 2021, at 12:26, stephane ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sven > > From that perspective this master to main change will cost us a lot of > problem. > I decided to continue to configure all my repositories to use master > and I will do it for any repository that is related to pharo and that people > may use. Just to remove such kind of friction. > I would encourage people to do the same like that we do not have to think. > > S > >> On 12 Jul 2021, at 14:32, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> For new GitHub projects the default branch is now main instead of master. >> >> There is however code in Metacello / Iceberg / ... that tries a number of >> options if no branch is specified, but it is not yet aware of this change. >> >> Specifically: >> >> This does not work >> >> ./pharo reddit.image metacello install github://svenvc/Reddit >> BaselineOfReddit >> >> instead you have to say >> >> ./pharo reddit.image metacello install github://svenvc/Reddit:main/ >> BaselineOfReddit >> >> It took me half an hour to figure this out ;-) >> >> Sven >>
