From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N8skG-0002CJ-1V for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:47:08 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8skE-0002C6-Ii for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:47:06 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8skA-0002BO-UV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:47:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48018 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8skA-0002BJ-CE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:47:02 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:51481) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8sk8-0004BC-Rp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:47:01 -0500 Received: from [85.180.5.154] (e180005154.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.5.154]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LxMeg-1M3Pp22zCk-016MkI; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:46:59 +0100 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GNU GRUB In-Reply-To: References: <20091112103856.GA27359@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:46:57 +0100 Message-ID: <1258105617.2703.49.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+0xNyxfxNftQl6E/hxVwNazXR3tNTfQYRW8C4 hdyyx1p2a/cgKaP+t1o4de2jUWgamrRnI1tN0tdwW7FW+R89FY fIfcgGwGL9qJIN1CzZfgzo1eLlnFSow 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: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:47:07 -0000 Am Freitag, den 13.11.2009, 00:08 -0800 schrieb Roman Shaposhnik: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > > First of all, there's no license problem. We usually write our own code, but > > when we have specific reasons to import it from another project, any license > > that is compatible with GPL (v3 and later) would be considered suitable. > > Aha! So the Lua license really is a red herring here.. My bad I used the wrong word, I should have said s/license/copyright/ But anyway > > However, we only import code from external projects when there's an important > > reason to do so. For example, we imported LZMA code because we needed the > > best compression around, and we didn't want to reinvent the wheel. In the > > specific case of LUA, this compromise didn't make sense to us since we already > > had a scripting engine. > > ...the real reason seems to be that you don't really believe in Lua as a primary > scripting language for GRUB, correct? Why do you think Lua as a *primary* language/format/whatever for grub.cfg would be right? With sh grub.cfg isn't that different from any other normal config file or even GRUB Legacy's menu.lst Learning Lua might be not so difficult for average experienced Linux users. But things are moving. Not every average Linux user has now some experience. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer