Hi! On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Felix Zielcke <fziel...@z-51.de> wrote: > 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.
I'd appreciated knowing non-licensing reasons as well. On the licensing front, though, what was an actual issue there? After all, Lua has a respectable FOSS license and I'm sure there's tons of MIT-licensed software in Debian. What made Lua different? >> 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. That, of course, always works -- but I was hoping to find out why maintainers feel unconvinced ;-) > lua.mod IIRC was 99K big and it was always included into the floppy > rescue images. 99K doesn't seem to be a lot compared to other auxiliary modules I find in /boot/grub on my Ubuntu. To some extent, that's exactly the reason of my frustration -- saving 99K on a partition full of all sorts of stuff hardly justifies withholding a useful feature. Don't take it the wrong way, though, this frustration is totally misplaced on grub-devel, but to some extent had Lua module been part of the core GRUB v2 I'm pretty sure distribution maintainers wouldn't have thrown it out. Thanks, Roman. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
