Re: Some ideas about new features of grub

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:13:25AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> LUA integration.
> >> LUA is quite powerful, it's more suitable to do complicated task than
> >> sh script. For example, we can use it to detect os at runtime,
> >> implement simple commands, or draw the graphic menu.
> >
> > I don't mind LUA being supported, but I think it's unnecessarily big
> > for the task GRUB is usually going to perform (the canonical example
> > of that is in the default grub.cfg) in the majority of cases.  I'd
> > like to see *that* use case made more robust instead of switching to
> > something else to obtain a flexibility we don't currently need.
> 
> With LUA, we can have a more user friendly interface. I like way rEFIt
> works, it doesn't require configuration. At runtime, it detects os and
> shows an icon for each of them. We can achieve similar goal using lua.
> Of course, advanced user can write the menu manually, but for most
> user, a smart auto-generated menu may be more appealing.

But we have grub-mkconfig for that.  This is what distributions shipping
GRUB are using.

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