From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Roadmap for LUA support in GRUB
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:56:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091113115644.GA16045@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e763acc10911130008u42bf8c08wb39a5967af34e4ee@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:08:24AM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> > However, we only import code from external projects when there's an important
> > reason to do so. For example, we imported LZMA code because we needed the
> > best compression around, and we didn't want to reinvent the wheel. In the
> > specific case of LUA, this compromise didn't make sense to us since we already
> > had a scripting engine.
>
> ...the real reason seems to be that you don't really believe in Lua as a primary
> scripting language for GRUB, correct?
No. It's quoted above in this mail. Please read it again...
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-11 3:38 Roadmap for LUA support in GRUB Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-11 10:41 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-11-11 18:13 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-11 18:53 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-11-12 2:46 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-11 19:01 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-11-12 10:38 ` Robert Millan
2009-11-13 8:08 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-13 9:46 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-11-13 11:54 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-11-13 15:34 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-13 18:12 ` Bean
2009-11-13 18:29 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-11-13 19:06 ` Robert Millan
2009-11-13 19:34 ` Bean
2009-11-13 20:22 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-11-14 8:11 ` Bean
2009-11-14 12:29 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-11-13 20:54 ` Robert Millan
2009-12-29 4:24 ` Bruce O. Benson
[not found] ` <20100101114244.GE3692@thorin>
2010-01-02 7:35 ` Bruce O. Benson
2009-11-13 11:56 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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