From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K2l2P-0007yo-VD for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:43:45 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2l2O-0007ya-9k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:43:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2l2N-0007yH-S1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:43:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32775 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2l2N-0007y7-KS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:43:43 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:59925) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2l2N-0007m8-5V for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:43:43 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K2l1k-0002bN-6U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:43:04 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K2l2A-0000d0-Ml for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:43:30 +0200 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:43:30 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080601104330.GC1581@thorin> References: <20080530212032.GA1672@thorin> <1212186232.18496.16.camel@dv> <20080531093805.GB6619@thorin> <1212301295.6853.23.camel@rd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1212301295.6853.23.camel@rd> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: backwards compatibility in grub.cfg 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, 01 Jun 2008 10:43:44 -0000 On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 02:21:35AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 11:38 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Yeah, that would be the "nice" way to do it, but it doesn't work. And the > > funny thing is, that if we fix it and start using it, it defeats the point of > > backwards compatibility :-) > > OK then. And we should make sure that "if !search --future-option" does > the right thing from now on. I'm afraid I get terribly confused when it comes to the scripting engine... FWIW, I committed the backward compatibility support. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)