Metacello / Iceberg / GitHub master to main renaming
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
Hi,
Some months ago, I added an FFI call to libgit to get this
information. Here:
https://github.com/pharo-vcs/libgit2-pharo-bindings/pull/40
But after this PR is merged, Metacello should use it, and I didn't
research how to do it (I never contributed to this project yet...).
Maybe somebody can assess how to do it?
Regards,
Martín
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 8:32 AM Sven Van Caekenberghe sven@stfx.eu 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
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 sven@stfx.eu 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
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 stephane.ducasse@inria.fr 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 sven@stfx.eu 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
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 tim@testit.works
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 1:14 PM
To: Pharo Development List pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org
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 stephane.ducasse@inria.fr 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 sven@stfx.eu 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
Le 2021-07-19 16:54, Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz a écrit :
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'm a bit sorry if I misinterpret what you say because of my poor
understanding of english.
But I would answer that whomever having a problem with fighting slavery
in general should leave the community.
Anyone also using and supporting extreme right vocabulary (e.g. "woke")
should leave the community.
If that's trolling, all the same.
If I misinterpreted (non-native english speaker), I am sorry, and
probably you will agree with me and there is no need for dicussion.
Steven.
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 tim@testit.works
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 1:14 PM
To: Pharo Development List pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org
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 stephane.ducasse@inria.fr 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 sven@stfx.eu 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
Hi,
it’s „highly probably“ somewhere in the territorry of poor understanding, but I wouldn’t blame language (don’t pretend to be obtuse when you want to be sneakily subversive).
I explicitly stated that fighting against actual slavery is better done by other means / elsewhere. Fighting against percieved shadows („extreme right vocabulary“; or nomenclature that never hurt no-one) is just divisive, and counter-productive on a programming language mailing-list.
You can’t erase history, and that some words that had negative connotations in the past are used for new, entirely unrelated purposes today is no wonder.
As, of course, you can’t be bothered to know, I’m member of one of those nations called „Slavic“ (.cz in my mail address). You know, you pretender, nations who were enslaved so frequently that the word „slave“ came from our enslavement. Do I have a tendency to blame „heirs“ of those who enslaved us in the past ? Do I cringe every time the word slave is uttered ? Do you know that some brainwashed individuals in our nation, in sync with todays brainwashing, tried to push the narrative that we (our nation), were colonizers as well ?
NO.
No-one is gonna make me feel like a victim (or an abuser) because of what happened in the past, before my father was born, etc.
Go fight you windmills, Don Q., I just hope the rest of the community won’t let themselves be pulled into it.
M.R.
From: Steven Costiou steven.costiou@kloum.io
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 4:08 PM
To: Pharo Development List pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org
Cc: Rauš Miloslav Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz
Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Re: Metacello / Iceberg / GitHub master to main renaming
Le 2021-07-19 16:54, Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.czmailto:Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz a écrit :
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'm a bit sorry if I misinterpret what you say because of my poor understanding of english.
But I would answer that whomever having a problem with fighting slavery in general should leave the community.
Anyone also using and supporting extreme right vocabulary (e.g. "woke") should leave the community.
If that's trolling, all the same.
If I misinterpreted (non-native english speaker), I am sorry, and probably you will agree with me and there is no need for dicussion.
Steven.
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 <tim@testit.worksmailto:tim@testit.works>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 1:14 PM
To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.orgmailto:pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>
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 <stephane.ducasse@inria.frmailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> 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 <sven@stfx.eumailto:sven@stfx.eu> 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
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 3:13 PM Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz wrote:
You can’t erase history, and that some words that had negative connotations in the past are used for new, entirely unrelated purposes today is no wonder.
I think that the change from master to main makes more sense from the
semantic point of view since main is more accurate, I still haven't
seen a slave branch in any repository.
So I think that the "master" name was chosen as in "master key". In
Spanish "master" translates to "principal" which translates back to
"main", and also to "maestro", which translates back to "teacher".
So I think that the GitHub change does nothing against slavery, but
the change ripples with side effects as the one that started this mail
thread.
In any case, it says more about them than about me, and since this is
not mandatory, I have no urge to rename anything soon.
Regards,
Esteban A. Maringolo
So far, no windmill complained about "woke incursions".
"Woke" is extremely clear vocabulary, only used by - let us get straight
to the point and not waste our time - modern nazis.
So, perhaps you misused the word and should document yourself
extensively on the subject.
But your reply seems to point otherwise.
And you are the one feeling hurt because we want to recognize that
vocabulary has an impact on how we perceive and conceive things.
What was that again about cowardise and virtue? :)
It is something to cope as we can with an annoying technical situation,
it is another thing to ask to not consider political views because they
are "woke" (which only purpose is to deny their legitimity without
arguing).
Does the Pharo community support "anti-woke" argumentation?
This needs to be clear so that I can decide to leave the community or
not.
Or perhaps, that is a misunderstanding.
Steven.
Le 2021-07-20 20:12, Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz a écrit :
Hi,
it's „highly probably" somewhere in the territorry of poor understanding, but I wouldn't blame language (don't pretend to be obtuse when you want to be sneakily subversive).
I explicitly stated that fighting against actual slavery is better done by other means / elsewhere. Fighting against percieved shadows („extreme right vocabulary"; or nomenclature that never hurt no-one) is just divisive, and counter-productive on a programming language mailing-list.
You can't erase history, and that some words that had negative connotations in the past are used for new, entirely unrelated purposes today is no wonder.
As, of course, you can't be bothered to know, I'm member of one of those nations called „Slavic" (.cz in my mail address). You know, you pretender, nations who were enslaved so frequently that the word „slave" came from our enslavement. Do I have a tendency to blame „heirs" of those who enslaved us in the past ? Do I cringe every time the word slave is uttered ? Do you know that some brainwashed individuals in our nation, in sync with todays brainwashing, tried to push the narrative that we (our nation), were colonizers as well ?
NO.
No-one is gonna make me feel like a victim (or an abuser) because of what happened in the past, before my father was born, etc.
Go fight you windmills, Don Q., I just hope the rest of the community won't let themselves be pulled into it.
M.R.
FROM: Steven Costiou steven.costiou@kloum.io
SENT: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 4:08 PM
TO: Pharo Development List pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org
CC: Rauš Miloslav Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz
SUBJECT: Re: [Pharo-dev] Re: Metacello / Iceberg / GitHub master to main renaming
Le 2021-07-19 16:54, Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz a écrit :
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'm a bit sorry if I misinterpret what you say because of my poor
understanding of english.
But I would answer that whomever having a problem with fighting slavery
in general should leave the community.
Anyone also using and supporting extreme right vocabulary (e.g. "woke")
should leave the community.
If that's trolling, all the same.
If I misinterpreted (non-native english speaker), I am sorry, and
probably you will agree with me and there is no need for dicussion.
Steven.
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 tim@testit.works
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 1:14 PM
To: Pharo Development List pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org
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 stephane.ducasse@inria.fr 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 sven@stfx.eu 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
Ugh. Slight history lesson / disambiguation.
The phrasing „woke“ actually came from „the left“, first it was being „woke“ about feminism, then this, then that.
Then, those who felt oppressed by the sexist arguments of extreme, „woke“ fraction of feminism, or racist arguments of those posing as anti-racists (and I could go on), started to use it as a pejorative, for those pushing insane propaganda, and for the propaganda itself.
Then, those who called themselves / their positions „woke“ in the past, started screeching that it is „extreme right vocabulary“.
As multiple people pointed out, master repository doesn’t have anything to do with slavery; as I pointed out there is need to feel butthurt about some words even if your ancestors were affected by the concepts they were also used for. So you points are completely invalid, virtue-signalling garbage.
But it usually takes „having the lived experience“ of the woke garbage turning aginst you, to get one of the indoctrinated to leave their religion. And trying to do so doesn’t belong on this forum, I just said what I felt needed to be said.
And with this, I’m back to lurking, I just wanted to clearly demonstrate why such debates have no merit (clearly the opposite) on prog. lang. forums/mailing list.
Everyone, keep on making Pharo great.
From: Steven Costiou steven.costiou@kloum.io
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 9:47 PM
To: Rauš Miloslav Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz
Cc: pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org
Subject: [Pharo-dev] Re: Metacello / Iceberg / GitHub master to main renaming
So far, no windmill complained about "woke incursions".
"Woke" is extremely clear vocabulary, only used by - let us get straight to the point and not waste our time - modern nazis.
So, perhaps you misused the word and should document yourself extensively on the subject.
But your reply seems to point otherwise.
And you are the one feeling hurt because we want to recognize that vocabulary has an impact on how we perceive and conceive things.
What was that again about cowardise and virtue? :)
It is something to cope as we can with an annoying technical situation, it is another thing to ask to not consider political views because they are "woke" (which only purpose is to deny their legitimity without arguing).
Does the Pharo community support "anti-woke" argumentation?
This needs to be clear so that I can decide to leave the community or not.
Or perhaps, that is a misunderstanding.
Steven.
Le 2021-07-20 20:12, Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.czmailto:Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz a écrit :
Hi,
it's „highly probably" somewhere in the territorry of poor understanding, but I wouldn't blame language (don't pretend to be obtuse when you want to be sneakily subversive).
I explicitly stated that fighting against actual slavery is better done by other means / elsewhere. Fighting against percieved shadows („extreme right vocabulary"; or nomenclature that never hurt no-one) is just divisive, and counter-productive on a programming language mailing-list.
You can't erase history, and that some words that had negative connotations in the past are used for new, entirely unrelated purposes today is no wonder.
As, of course, you can't be bothered to know, I'm member of one of those nations called „Slavic" (.cz in my mail address). You know, you pretender, nations who were enslaved so frequently that the word „slave" came from our enslavement. Do I have a tendency to blame „heirs" of those who enslaved us in the past ? Do I cringe every time the word slave is uttered ? Do you know that some brainwashed individuals in our nation, in sync with todays brainwashing, tried to push the narrative that we (our nation), were colonizers as well ?
NO.
No-one is gonna make me feel like a victim (or an abuser) because of what happened in the past, before my father was born, etc.
Go fight you windmills, Don Q., I just hope the rest of the community won't let themselves be pulled into it.
M.R.
From: Steven Costiou <steven.costiou@kloum.iomailto:steven.costiou@kloum.io>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 4:08 PM
To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.orgmailto:pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>
Cc: Rauš Miloslav <Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.czmailto:Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz>
Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] Re: Metacello / Iceberg / GitHub master to main renaming
Le 2021-07-19 16:54, Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.czmailto:Miloslav.Raus@cuzk.cz a écrit :
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'm a bit sorry if I misinterpret what you say because of my poor understanding of english.
But I would answer that whomever having a problem with fighting slavery in general should leave the community.
Anyone also using and supporting extreme right vocabulary (e.g. "woke") should leave the community.
If that's trolling, all the same.
If I misinterpreted (non-native english speaker), I am sorry, and probably you will agree with me and there is no need for dicussion.
Steven.
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 <tim@testit.worksmailto:tim@testit.works>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 1:14 PM
To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.orgmailto:pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>
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 <stephane.ducasse@inria.frmailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> 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 <sven@stfx.eumailto:sven@stfx.eu> 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