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 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
