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Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode


From: Bean
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:11:28 +0800

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Colin D Bennett <address@hidden> wrote:
> About the fancy menu support, I hope to pursue getting it finally
> committed soon; I just need to synchronize my graphical menu patch set
> with the current GRUB codebase.  I have just been extremely busy until
> now, but I expect to get this done in the near future.

Oh, that would be nice.

> The current GRUB scripting engine is OK for basic configuration, and no
> other scripting support is really required for the fancy menu.
>
> However, I still like the idea of additionally supporting a tiny but
> powerful general-purpose scripting language such as Lua (~100 KB),
> Lisp/Scheme (? KB), or ECMAScript (? KB) to allow graphical menu
> enhancements by themes.
>
> For instance, in only a screenful of Lua code (and me never having
> written Lua before) I created an animated background for the menu.
> Certainly there are many other purposes as well that a general purpose
> scripting language could support.
>
> Perhaps later, after the graphical menu support is integrated into
> GRUB, we can explore adding scripting language support.

You're right, LUA is compact yet still powerful, it's quite suitable
for our purpose. If it's fine with other developers, I can start
working on it. Oh btw, is the license compatible ?

-- 
Bean




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