Re: Parsing of Config files (was Re: GRUB installation thoughts)

[tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

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.

I'm sympathetic to this, and it would be kind of cool to have guile in
the boot loader.  I am a little concerned about how fast such a
bootloader would start up.

Thomas