From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N8AeG-00044K-LK for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:42:00 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8AeD-00040Q-3T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:41:57 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8Ae8-0003uz-4E for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:41:56 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32793 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8Ae7-0003uO-Ks for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:41:51 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:63988) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8Ae7-0006Xx-08 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:41:51 -0500 Received: from [85.180.61.117] (e180061117.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.61.117]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MEtVS-1MsFX71w9i-00FWUn; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:41:47 +0100 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GNU GRUB In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:41:46 +0100 Message-ID: <1257936106.2864.5.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX180hwXNeDmhrGwHi66ub3K1C/zWhlxVpzb26KK 69yMo4V/I5cd2Zgt6rLNrGKfZ5yO0L5H7+jSGBkW9siGON9h6y JAXqwmcaMPJUDwzTSpm5eoDFj77B02K X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Roadmap for LUA support in GRUB X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:41:57 -0000 Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 19:38 -0800 schrieb Roman Shaposhnik: > Browsing the archives of grub-devel reveals that Lua support was moved to > grub-extras which makes me ask these two questions: > 1. Was the decision to move Lua based exclusively on the licensing concerns? I don't think it was exclusively only decided because of the license, but this is the top reason for it. License alone is the only reason why grub-extras has been created. But Robert or maybe Vladimir may be able to tell you more. > 2. Is there any hope of ever seeing GRUB v2 + Lua in major distributions > once they start adopting GRUB v2 as a default boot loader? Convince the major distributions that integrating lua in their builds is a good reason. In Debian we still dropped lua even though we already include grub-extras into our build system since it was created. In our opinion lua can be useful for a small amount of persons but is just a waste for the majority. lua.mod IIRC was 99K big and it was always included into the floppy rescue images. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer