(on hold): If you have a function called `main`, you may need to tweak it

[Tamas_Papp]

@digital_carver

Either this Discourse thread or a new thread split away from this would be a better place for the “is this breaking and how do we mitigate that” discussion.

I started one with a proposal.

RFC: give up on SemVer

I am opening a new topic because I do not want to sidetrack the one about main(). This is just the latest of “minor breaking changes” that are technically breaking, yet practically harmless and easy to deal with. SemVer has become a de facto standard for standardize software versioning, especially in FOSS. It is widely understood, practical, detailed. It is just perfect for packages and libraries. What I am arguing here is that it is not well-suited to a complex interactive language like Julia.…