Re: GRUB portability

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:50:22AM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
> 
> Although this is applicable to GRUB as well, the main problem of PUPA is that
> quite few people are interested in the core development. So I'm afraid that
> nobody will join the project, until PUPA has a full set of basic features.
> That's a common tendency in volunteer-based projects.

I thought that the "Information-technology Promotion Agency" did sponsor you
or someone for PUPA development.

And perhaps if you call it GRUB2 and put it in /cvsroot/grub/grub2, then more
people interested on adding features to GRUB would rather add them to GRUB2
instead.

Btw, see:

  http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/pupa.html

-- 
Robert Millan

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thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

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