From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MUjpq-0008QV-A9 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:10:58 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUjpp-0008ON-6D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:10:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MUjpk-0008F2-O2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:10:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47311 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MUjpk-0008Eu-EE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:10:52 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:53207) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MUjpj-0001lT-Bb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:10:51 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MUijg-00027u-11 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:00:32 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MUjpg-0003Dn-RB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:10:48 +0200 Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:10:48 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090725161048.GD12326@thorin> References: <1248192179.27068.18.camel@mj> <1248211531.18091.5.camel@mj> <20090722175108.GM8706@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support FreeBSD in osdetect.lua 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: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:10:57 -0000 On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:02:02PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > I think we should contemplate to put LUA scripting in grub-extras too.  Like > > other components of grub-extras, we don't have copyright assignment for it, > > so it would fit well the purpose of grub-extras.  This would render the > > question about zfs moot. > LUA will probably be important for graphics. It can be useful, yes, but not essential. Native scripting should continue to be supported, since the whole grub-mkconfig stack relies on it. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."