Matthew Burgess wrote:
through the PC speaker and scripting support. In short, I think they've
lost sight of the fact that they're developing a bootloader, though
there may well be use cases I'm not aware of where scripting and the
ability to play music are useful.
1) It seems that the code you refer to was written by two separate
people, not the entire team.
2) None of that code is in the repo. Go to
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-grub/ and search for play.c and
lsb.c
3) Though perhaps they will decide (for the sake of fun) to include that
code, it's not listed as items they're working on:
http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatus
http://grub.enbug.org/TodoList
4) Go read the rest of the threads on that list for the past several
weeks. Does it look to you like they're really concerned about sound
support and scripting?
In short, I think your quick judgment was rather unfair.
It also has an added dependency of LZO, I think, though if that's the
price we have to pay to use a maintained package then I obviously don't
mind adding it to the book.
Yes it would be another lib. Do yourself a favor and download it and try
it before you start assuming they've lost their heads.
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JH
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