Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
1) It seems that the code you refer to was written by two separate
people, not the entire team.
But Yoshinori K. Okuji, who I still class as the lead developer, has
been involved in the dicsussions on both of those features and hasn't
once said to folks to quit pissing around with such ridiculous bloat.
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
Because they're still busy discussing what colour to paint those
bikesheds on the mailing list :-)
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
Ah, Open Source Software and up-to-date documentation, one of life's
more common annoyances.
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.
I've been following grub-devel via the archives for a few months now, so
I don't think it's a quick judgement. Maybe it is unfair, simply
because the things that are important (like being able to boot a
machine) just get done without much discussion.
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.
Sorry, it's a bootloader, I aint gonna play with an alpha version of
something that critical, especially given the fact that 1.90 wouldn't
boot at all.
That said, I'll be more than happy to put Grub2 in the book once it's
officially announced as stable and, should the musical and scriptable
nature of Grub be in such a release and still not appear to have a
reasonable use case we can just patch it out I suppose. I wonder
whether it'll ever be announced as stable though - 0.9x never was, after
all!
Regards,
Matt.
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