Am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009, 19:38 -0800 schrieb Roman Shaposhnik: > Browsing the archives of grub-devel reveals that Lua support was moved to > grub-extras which makes me ask these two questions: > 1. Was the decision to move Lua based exclusively on the licensing > concerns?
I don't think it was exclusively only decided because of the license, but this is the top reason for it. License alone is the only reason why grub-extras has been created. But Robert or maybe Vladimir may be able to tell you more. > 2. Is there any hope of ever seeing GRUB v2 + Lua in major distributions > once they start adopting GRUB v2 as a default boot loader? Convince the major distributions that integrating lua in their builds is a good reason. In Debian we still dropped lua even though we already include grub-extras into our build system since it was created. In our opinion lua can be useful for a small amount of persons but is just a waste for the majority. lua.mod IIRC was 99K big and it was always included into the floppy rescue images. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
