On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:13:25AM +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > >> LUA integration. > >> LUA is quite powerful, it's more suitable to do complicated task than > >> sh script. For example, we can use it to detect os at runtime, > >> implement simple commands, or draw the graphic menu. > > > > I don't mind LUA being supported, but I think it's unnecessarily big > > for the task GRUB is usually going to perform (the canonical example > > of that is in the default grub.cfg) in the majority of cases. I'd > > like to see *that* use case made more robust instead of switching to > > something else to obtain a flexibility we don't currently need. > > With LUA, we can have a more user friendly interface. I like way rEFIt > works, it doesn't require configuration. At runtime, it detects os and > shows an icon for each of them. We can achieve similar goal using lua. > Of course, advanced user can write the menu manually, but for most > user, a smart auto-generated menu may be more appealing.
But we have grub-mkconfig for that. This is what distributions shipping GRUB are using. -- 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." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel