EDIT: The change is on hold for the time being.

[image] digital_carver: The first bit is probably intended to be !isinteractive(). Yes, sorry formatting issue. Will edit the OP.

[image] goerz: having Base.main instead of Main.main seems like it would perfectly solve the problem That was also my first impression but now I think it would be a confusing hack: this main is really about Main, not Base, and it’s not a regular method. So Base.main would be misleading. Here…

Looking around I see that other languages are using configuration files to declare binaries and entry points. See the [[bin]] section in Rust’s Cargo.toml: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/cargo-targets.html#binaries Python has even moved in this direction as well. https://packaging.pyt…

There is a gigantic thread What steps should the Julia community take to bring Julia to the next level of popularity? elsewhere. My reply would be: Don’t casually break user code here when there are fine alternatives (such as using __main__ instead of main).

[image] Keno: I replied to this on the GitHub issue to avoid bifurcating the discussion. Just so everyone is on the same page, @Keno what do you consider on topic here? IMO, Discourse is a much better place to have such (potentially) long, diverging discussions with lots of opinions, so it wo…

[image] 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. [image] RFC: give up on SemVer Internals & Design I a…

[image] digital_carver: Just so everyone is on the same page, @Keno what do you consider on topic here? Well, kind of depends on where the GitHub thread is going - if the change is getting reverted, then there’s broader discussion to be had there. I guess for the moment, that means concrete t…

Just to point it out here too, with a good warning message, the compromise suggested by @Keno seems like a good way forward to me.

I disagree that __init__is like main. Using C as a comparison, it would be __attribute(constructor)_, while main is main. One is present in all executables while the other is a special behavior that isn’t super common.

Huh, seems all Julia-nightly CI is broken now. I suppose this is a good example of the odd issues this will cause. Run julia --color=yes "$GITHUB_ACTION_PATH"/add_general_registry.buildpkg.jl [ Info: The General registry already exists locally ERROR: MethodError: no method matching main(::Vector{St…

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

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I started one with a proposal.

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

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