On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Bean <bean12...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> > wrote: >> A scripting language that is actively maintained and used for writing >> extensions >> to GRUB. My original understanding was that Lua would fit this description, >> now it seems that it was more like an odd experiment in GRUB trunk. >> >> IOW, at the moment -- if I need to script GRUB my only portable choice would >> be, >> unfortunately, its internal shell. With the current state of things I >> can't rely on >> Lua always being there for me. > > Hi, > > I like the LUA language, actually It's me who add it in the first > place. Some of the purpose is detection of OS items at runtime, and > interaction with graphic menu system. And honestly, I'm not happy > with it being removed from main repository as this make it harder to > maintain. > > But no worry, I've created a fork project BURG that contains some > brand-new features, the LUA engine will be added back soon.
Perfect! Thanks a million for chiming in -- that's exactly the kind of information I was looking for. Thanks, Roman (switching from grub-devel to burg-devel...) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
