Re: Parsing of Config files (was Re: GRUB installation thoughts)
>>>>> Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:
TB> Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org> writes:
>> As far as scripting languages, GNU is settling on Guile, so I
>> would imagine that eventually, the `menu.lst' would either use
>> Guile, or have a Guile-like syntax, and be renamed so that there
>> was no confusion or problems with backward-compatibility.
TB> I'm sympathetic to this, and it would be kind of cool to have
TB> guile in the boot loader. I am a little concerned about how fast
TB> such a bootloader would start up.
There's a lot of discussion on the Guile lists about adding
configure-time options to build a totally-stripped-down version of
libguile. That will have to happen before anything like GRUB uses it.
But I can dream, can't I. ;)
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