oops, I missed a lot in the last months. Having read Okujisan's remarks about Version 1.0 I digged through the archive to find his original posting (below) and took a look at the TODO (current CVS) and extracted, what is missing for 1.0 (also included below).
I could live with a Version 1.0 without the missing features although I would prefer having a finished multiboot specification before releasing ... but I don't know, how I could help. There must be more people reading this list with an opinion, aren't they ? ------------------------------------------------------- > From: Yoshinori Okuji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:01 PM [...] > > I wanted to hear that when I asked everyone in this list, > "Hey, don't you want to see 1.0 released now?" I got no reply > to my message, so my understanding was that nobody wanted > 1.0 actually. > > The question is that we have not finished all the items in > the file TODO. I don't know how many people have took a look > at the file seriously, but they are still important issues. > [...] > my question as well. If I get a feeling that a significant > amount of people wish to have 1.0 even if GRUB is not perfect, > I would be happy to release it. > > Okuji > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Yoshinori K. Okuji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: talking about 1.0 AFAIK, the current CVS version is quite stable, so I'm going to release the next version really soon. One question is what version number it should have. My original plan was, as written in the file TODO, that 1.0 would be released after the Multiboot Specification 0.7 and its new features were finished up. But, honestly speaking, I'm not keen to add new features into the current GRUB, even if they are really useful. The implementation really sucks. After I developed PUPA (the next generation of GRUB), I found myself not having willing to touch the source code any longer. Thus, I'm now thinking about releasing the next version as 1.0 rather than 0.94 and keeping it in "maintenance mode" forever. What do you think? Also, I think I need someone who maintains the current line of GRUB instead of me, because I myself have many TODO items on PUPA before importing it as GRUB 2. Okuji -------------------------------------------------------- TODO --- Things that must or should be done before 1.0: * Finish the Multiboot Speicification 0.7. !!! * Add more --disable-FOO options to configure, so that you can create a minimum GRUB image. This is useful for boot floppies because of the size restriction. ! * Implement a new version of track_int13, using Virtual 8086 Mode. !!! * Add missing features of graphics support. !! * Fix a bug about drive completion. It happens only if a network drive is available. !! -- Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3 Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
