Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:40:31AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> >> All I need is ping from Robert. My preference is to publish a new version >> regularly, no matter whatever bugs remain (yeah, I am very aggressive in >> GRUB >> 2), but he stopped me releasing 1.96 previosly, IIRC. > > I didn't mean to stop you. I just pointed out that there are regressions, and > that I don't think it's a good idea to release with (significant) regressions. > But if you disagree, it's not a big concern to me. :-) > > Anyway, the regressions are still there. Although we're closer to fixing > them: > > - I fixed one of the known problems with LVM/RAID, but others (2, I think) > remain. > > - Apple hardware still won't boot, but Pavel has put quite an effort in > tracing this and IIRC he's very close to a fix. > > Besides, I'm afraid I tell everyone to use CVS rather than 1.95, since 1.95 > has > much worse problems that affect a wider audience; the ones I fixed in my first > commit (ignore 1st, 2nd breaks all udev users, 3rd breaks all users without > floppy drive): > > 2006-09-14 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * util/i386/pc/grub-install.in: Skip menu.lst when removing > /boot/grub/*.lst. > > * util/i386/pc/getroot.c: Don't recurse into dotdirs (e.g. ".static"). > > * util/i386/pc/grub-mkdevicemap.c: Make sure the floppy device exists > before adding it to device.map. > > So perhaps it's a good idea to release 1.96 with known regressions after all.
Personally, I am in favor of releasing often. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
