Re: Roadmap for LUA support in GRUB

[Roman Shaposhnik]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Bean <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> A scripting language that is actively maintained and used for writing 
>> extensions
>> to GRUB. My original understanding was that Lua would fit this description,
>> now it seems that it was more like an odd experiment in GRUB trunk.
>>
>> IOW, at the moment -- if I need to script GRUB my only portable choice would 
>> be,
>> unfortunately, its internal shell. With the current state of things I
>> can't rely on
>> Lua always being there for me.
>
> Hi,
>
> I like the LUA language, actually It's me who add it in the first
> place. Some of  the purpose is detection of OS items at runtime, and
> interaction with graphic menu system.  And honestly, I'm not happy
> with it being removed from main repository as this make it harder to
> maintain.
>
> But no worry, I've created a fork project BURG that contains some
> brand-new features, the LUA engine will be added back soon.

Perfect! Thanks a million for chiming in -- that's exactly the kind of
information I was looking for.

Thanks,
Roman (switching from grub-devel to burg-devel...)