From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DM7UR-0001Mp-Ds for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:46:51 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DM7UL-0001Jj-DU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:46:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DM7UG-0001HD-21 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:46:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DM7UF-0001GR-EU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:46:39 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DM7TM-0003pN-I9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:45:44 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71FF685FF for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:35:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09774-03 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:35:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C26D872E for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:35:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E9DC046 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:35:34 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20050213165452.GA4503@miracle> <87mzu8tiid.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <5c9273e9e7f6eba181c088feaedb314c@penguinppc.org> <87mzu7arut.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <87fyzxy0gg.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <6e5dae65f19717cef397b85f4b268e72@penguinppc.org> <873bvryvba.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:35:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Hollis Blanchard's message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:44:31 -0600") Message-ID: <87fyxtfh9k.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: [patch] set prefix on PPC 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: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:46:49 -0000 Hollis Blanchard writes: >>> Users trying to boot with the old syntax will fail. >> >> In my case it will still work. :) > > In your case we are stuck with an inflexible syntax forever. There is > a reason that commandline tools use named switches, and do not require > them in any particular order. Why? If you add add a --debug it will still work: boot grubof --debug=all (hd0,6) If it is really important, I could change this, but I think a full featured argument parser would be a bit overkill. :) -- Marco