On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:09:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > 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: > > > 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.
I assume you typoed, since there's no such thing as Ubuntu 10.4 yet. When there is (well, 10.04 anyway), it will use GRUB 2 by default. > > 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. It would be great if somebody could take up Edward's work and port it to GRUB 2. If nobody else does then I'd be interested in doing so myself, although I will not be able to start for a month or two from now. Robert is working hard on making GRUB 2 usable, and is just advising Edward that, right now, there is no upstream for GRUB Legacy who could either accept or usefully comment on his patch. It would of course be possible for some people (presumably mostly the distributors who rely on it) to get together and declare themselves the new upstream for GRUB Legacy, but most of the people who might be interested in such things seem to have either lost interest or thrown their weight behind GRUB 2 upstream. Certainly this distributor right here is in the latter camp as it seems much more likely to produce a result that meets our needs in the end. (Plus, I think such a revitalised upstream would be a caretaker at best, and wouldn't really be able to effectively work on some of the major issues that have dogged distributors of GRUB Legacy for years without reinventing the wheel of GRUB 2.) This isn't naysaying those people who post patches for GRUB Legacy - but given the reality that nobody is maintaining GRUB Legacy upstream right now, which is better, to have your patch ignored or to receive a note saying that it's against an unmaintained target? I'd go for not being ignored any day. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
