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Re: update on the planning
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
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Re: update on the planning |
Date: |
Fri, 5 May 2006 20:07:24 +0200 |
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Hi Marco,
On Friday 05 May 2006 13:48, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Eventually this has to happen if we want people to use GRUB 2. So I
> agree with that. It's to soon for me to determine if November is
> reasonable or not. But if we want to pick a date, this date is as
> good as any. At least it is not too soon or late for my feeling.
:)
> For me it will mean that scripting should be finished soon. At least
> the rough work and functionality. Same for networking interfaces, the
> GUI layering splitup and we have to determine before that what should
> be a command and what should go into a variable. But let's not
> discuss this right here, right now.
Please do not harass yourself with this. ;)
I mean that GRUB 2 should not introduce incompatibility after 1.96 _against
GRUB 2_ rather than GRUB Legacy. So as long as you are careful, you can add
more features later. In fact, I have added a lot of new features into GRUB
Legacy without losing any backward compatibility. Since GRUB 2 has a cleaner
design, I expect that this would be even easier.
The goal is that the user can start to use GRUB 2 while not scared of a
breakage due to incompatible changes. This also eases the documentation
significantly. In GRUB Legacy, this way worked very well. I was even
surprised that it was not necessary to release a public version at all. :p
As you said, it is necessary to make this kind of decision at a point,
although it has been fun that we don't have to care about incompatibility for
these 3 years. Yet, we still have 6 months in my plan, so you don't have to
feel threatened.
Okuji