From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1E4KOv-00086i-4e for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:27:53 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4KOp-000855-KK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:27:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E4KOk-000828-2p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:27:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4KOi-0007y1-7U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:27:40 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E4KPm-0003tp-IA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:28:46 -0400 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F754FF65C04 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:13:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=ip6-localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 14 Aug 05 15:13:12 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:12:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <42FF0C53.1070601@gmail.com> <20050814132946.GB27055@pell.home.ka8zrt.com> In-Reply-To: <20050814132946.GB27055@pell.home.ka8zrt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508141712.06190.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus 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: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:27:49 -0000 On Sunday 14 August 2005 15:29, Douglas Wade Needham wrote: > BTW...If 1.9 is supposed to be indicating that we are nearing a 2.0 > release, I don't think that now would be the time for such a major > change. After nearly 30 years of programming, one of the problems I > have seen in too many Open Source projects is that a release cycle is > supposedly started, but... Do not care about the version number. For now, GRUB 2 is at an alpha stage. Rather, you must not stop thinking how to improve GRUB 2. So I appreciate that Vladimir is thinking various possibilities. Possibly, we will have to begin stabilizing GRUB 2 in near future, maybe in 6 months. Once we decide this, we should not make any (user-visible) incompatible change, because the requirement for a boot loader is more severe than other software. So, reversely, we should consider what we can change as much as possible at this moment. If we miss this occasion, the next chance is GRUB 3. Okuji