From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc4iB-00042I-Nr for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:07:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc4iA-00041a-3I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:07:30 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc4i7-00041C-KJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:07:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fc4i7-00040z-GF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:07:27 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fc4iK-0000C5-AR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 14:07:40 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F403C9201BA for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 21:30:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9473A3C9201B9 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 21:30:47 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 20:07:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200605042234.53201.okuji@enbug.org> <87ejz8n14w.fsf@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <87ejz8n14w.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605052007.24183.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.489921, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: update on the planning 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: Fri, 05 May 2006 18:07:30 -0000 Hi Marco, On Friday 05 May 2006 13:48, Marco Gerards wrote: > Eventually this has to happen if we want people to use GRUB 2. So I > agree with that. It's to soon for me to determine if November is > reasonable or not. But if we want to pick a date, this date is as > good as any. At least it is not too soon or late for my feeling. :) > For me it will mean that scripting should be finished soon. At least > the rough work and functionality. Same for networking interfaces, the > GUI layering splitup and we have to determine before that what should > be a command and what should go into a variable. But let's not > discuss this right here, right now. Please do not harass yourself with this. ;) I mean that GRUB 2 should not introduce incompatibility after 1.96 _against GRUB 2_ rather than GRUB Legacy. So as long as you are careful, you can add more features later. In fact, I have added a lot of new features into GRUB Legacy without losing any backward compatibility. Since GRUB 2 has a cleaner design, I expect that this would be even easier. The goal is that the user can start to use GRUB 2 while not scared of a breakage due to incompatible changes. This also eases the documentation significantly. In GRUB Legacy, this way worked very well. I was even surprised that it was not necessary to release a public version at all. :p As you said, it is necessary to make this kind of decision at a point, although it has been fun that we don't have to care about incompatibility for these 3 years. Yet, we still have 6 months in my plan, so you don't have to feel threatened. Okuji