Re: [Factor-talk] Should we default to main?

2020-12-02 Thread Benjamin Pollack
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, at 16:56, Dave Carlton wrote: > I'm getting cranky in my old age. Aplogies. > > Just don't have time for PC. Well, the good news is we thankfully run just fine on Mac, and there's ongoing work to add ARM support so you could use a tablet or Android phone instead.___

Re: [Factor-talk] Should we default to main?

2020-12-02 Thread Dave Carlton
I'm getting cranky in my old age. Aplogies. Just don't have time for PC. — Dave Carlton da...@polymicro.net > On Dec 2, 2020, at 14:56, John Benediktsson > wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > I really don't disagree with you that much, however ther

Re: [Factor-talk] Should we default to main?

2020-12-02 Thread John Benediktsson
Hi Dave, I really don't disagree with you that much, however there is likely going to be an increasing shift to main over the next few years, here's some background by GitHub on the topic: https://github.com/github/renaming And some information about the change to support init.defaultBranch

Re: [Factor-talk] Should we default to main?

2020-12-02 Thread Dave Carlton
I see no reason to change existing project to use this stupid convention. If you want to use main for new projects, fine, but why take time and effort to fit into a new PC paradyme is asinine. Whats this world ocming to? master/slave, master/client in context of CS in no way reflects upon slaver

Re: [Factor-talk] Should we default to main?

2020-12-02 Thread John Benediktsson
Whether or not you or I agree on the impetus for the change, git upstream is changing their defaultBranch to main for new projects and I see no reason not to migrate with them. On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:31 AM Zoltán Kéri via Factor-talk < factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Dear Lord, I a

Re: [Factor-talk] Should we default to main?

2020-12-02 Thread Zoltán Kéri via Factor-talk
Dear Lord, I am so sorry that this is a thing today. The main reason for the change is the word's ties to slavery, except the term within this context has absolutely nothing to do with slavery. It is a bullshit move from whoever keeps pushing it, they have zero context-awareness. Welp. ‐‐‐

Re: [Factor-talk] Should we default to main?

2020-12-02 Thread John Benediktsson
Currently pushing to master, syncing to main. Hoping to make main the ... ahem... main branch as part of the git upstream defaultBranch changes. Not quite ready to switch over yet in our build CI environment but soon maybe? On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:11 AM Benjamin Pollack wrote: > I noticed tha

[Factor-talk] Should we default to main?

2020-12-02 Thread Benjamin Pollack
I noticed that we've got both main and master branches at this point. Should I be pushing to main or to master? Do we have a workflow, or we're just keeping them in sync for now? ___ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://