From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NGfW7-0003dk-GB for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:16:43 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGfW4-0003aR-PI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:16:40 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGfW0-0003Ux-Ad for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:16:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37683 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGfVz-0003Ue-Ts for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:16:36 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:59009 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGfVz-0004S0-4t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:16:35 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NGfVu-0003ib-Bk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:16:33 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NGfVt-0000ai-RW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:16:29 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:16:29 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091204211629.GJ1528@thorin> References: <20091129183936.GB19323@pina.cat> <20091129184503.GA22104@pina.cat> <20091130093949.GA6439@riva.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091130093949.GA6439@riva.ucam.org> 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, 3) Subject: Re: var=foo should be valid? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:16:41 -0000 On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:39:50AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > I would appreciate it if we left it as it is now. It is not > intrinsically bad to have both, and GRUB 2 is already deployed in > production so it's quite likely that people will in fact be using both > syntaxes. (Indeed, the configuration file I'm delivering by default in > Ubuntu 9.10 uses both syntaxes! I should probably normalise that but I > simply hadn't thought about it as being any kind of problem.) We should > not break production installations when there is no reason to do so. Don't worry, we can't promise we'll stick to an interface forever, but we're careful not to break existing setups. -- 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."