>>>>> OKUJI Yoshinori writes:
>> I would rather provide a few UI and disk primitives and have GRUB
>> be mainly a scripting language so that people would be able to
>> develop innovative new features without having to recompile GRUB.
OY> It sounds good. For example, if the user can customize the menu
OY> layout, that's great. To do that, I don't want to give up
OY> Guile. From my view, Pliant default syntax is not easy to
OY> implement a large-scale project, so we will need to develop more
OY> powerful syntax if we use Pliant. However, if we use Guile, we
OY> will implement new GRUB without developing a translator, as long
OY> as we like Scheme.
I am talking with RMS, and others, about gradually moving Guile Scheme
to run on top of Pliant (Pliable Guile). I don't think that would be
too hard, and it would pay off for both Guile and Pliant; Guile has
lots of existing applications, and Pliant needs users.
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