From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfgR-0005lC-Qs for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:50:43 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfgP-0005j3-T7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:50:41 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfgO-0005hQ-Dh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:50:41 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfgO-0005hK-AA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:50:40 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpfgN-0003lA-Hc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:50:39 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IpfgM-0003LR-2l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:50:38 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IpfgJ-0006St-Nv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:50:35 +0000 Received: from p508c7c9b.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.140.124.155]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:50:35 +0000 Received: from Markus.Elfring by p508c7c9b.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:50:35 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: grub-devel@gnu.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:50:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <472F3D31.3010204@nic.fi> <4730DE0F.9090103@nic.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508c7c9b.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <4730DE0F.9090103@nic.fi> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Sender: news X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: Outline menu 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: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:50:42 -0000 > I do not fancy XML for the boot loader... and I do not see a need to yet > another configuration file format for menus. We already have menu > command that can be used to build menus. Perhaps you can convince me > otherwise? I imagine that GRUB can become so flexible that it can be specified which data formats should be parsed. If the target boot environment has not got enough resources for XML and XSLT processing, an customised configuration file format must be used to specify the required menu attributes. Do you know any other standard file format for outlines that might be more resource-friendly? Regards, Markus