On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:36 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Pavel Roskin<pro...@gnu.org> wrote: > > I think we should release 1.97 first. Sorry, I know that it's bad to > > sit on a pile of code, but in my opinion, the nested partition patch is > > too intrusive at this point. > > > For the release we prepared a lot of improvements for FreeBSD support. > Hopefully it will attract new FreeBSD users. Supporting nested > partitions required to abandon the syntax like (hd0,a) even if the > syntax (hd0,1,a) could be preserved. If we release 1.97 now without > nested partition patch it would be much more difficult in the future > to break the compatibility with (hd0,a) format. So I would prefer to > get nested partition patch in first before releasing 1.97
I don't think making another release would change the situation in any way. Version 1.96 supported the (hd0,a) format, and that wasn't a problem. If you want, we could just disable the (hd0,a) format now without actually changing the internals. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
