some design issues

["Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>]

I'd like to hear your opinions about some design-related issues.

Currently, GRUB 2 uses grub.cfg as the name of a default config file. I 
chose this, according to a private discussion between me and Jeremy 
Katz. He pointed out that the user did not find a config file if it was 
menu.lst, because he/she simply ran "locate grub". So the Red Hat 
version of GRUB legacy makes a symlink to menu.lst as grub.conf. I said 
that this name does not fit in 8.3 format. He agreed but he didn't want 
to discuss what name should be better.

I think the name "menu.lst" is really strange, so I don't like it. But I 
don't know if grub.cfg is nice. What do you think? I sometimes think 
that "grubrc" might be better (like "bashrc").

Next thing. I think it is a bad idea to make the variable for a menu 
global, because this is not compatible with having multiple nested 
menus. But some commands want to access information on the environment 
(such as current menu). I can think of two ways to address this issue:

1. Pass one more argument to each command. This argument would be a 
pointer to struct context, and contains a pointer to current menu, etc.

2. Provide global functions to access information. These functions would 
have to use global variables.

I don't know which is better.

Okuji