From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1BnHRu-0002Rs-LI for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:47:58 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BnHRs-0002RZ-UT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:47:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BnHRs-0002RN-9u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:47:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BnHRs-0002RK-6k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:47:56 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BnHOf-00007i-AM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:44:37 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FCAF0D35A1 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:44:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:44:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407211544.25663.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: Status of GRUB / GRUB2? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:47:57 -0000 On Wednesday 21 July 2004 06:13, Martin Baute wrote: > How can there be a GRUB *2* if there never was a GRUB *1* > to speak of? I'd expect at least a 1.0 file release - however > incomplete and inferor that version might feel for you - that > people can use and rely upon until that GRUB 2 materializes. Since Macro answered other questions, I reply only to this question. 1.0 will never be released. This is because GRUB Legacy has missing features to be 1.0 but it is not worth developing any further. So we do only bugfixes and beta releases. IMHO, it is much more efficient to create a better boot loader (i.e. GRUB 2). I know some people worry about version numbers too much. But what do you get from version numbers really? Nothing. That's why GRUB Legacy is used widely by many people and vendors, although the version is the horrible "0.9x". GRUB Legacy is not released publicly yet. So what? Most people do not care about version numbers anyway. They just care about if the software is really usable or not. For me, version numbers are just like "date + compatibility information". If the major version is different, it means that compatibility is not perfect. If the minor version is different, it means that it's released at a different time. Okuji