On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:38:10AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:21:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Hi Edward, > > > > I'm sorry but GRUB Legacy is not maintained. At least not by us; we've > > deprecated it in favour of GRUB 2. > > > > It is also being abandoned by distributors, so I wouldn't recommend that you > > put any effort in developing for it. > > You've been spouting this line for years, and yet my Ubuntu 10.4 machine > uses, guess what, GRUB 1. Mainly because you deprecated GRUB Legacy[tm] > well before GRUB 2 was usable. > > (you in the generic sense of the GRUB project here) > > Edward - please do continue to develop patches for GRUB 1 (the one that > still actually works plenty well enough for lots of people) and ignore the > naysayers who are happy to throw out backwards compatibility. > > Sometimes you have to maintain crappy code because people out there depend > on it. And we thank those who step up and do it rather than throw their > hands up and pretend it doesn't need doing!
I'm not telling anyone what should or shouldn't work with. But if you want to work on a branch we consider deprecated, please do it elsewhere. Discussion regarding GRUB Legacy is off-topic in this list. Thanks -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
