>>>>> Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes: TB> Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. ;) -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/) [Unfortunately, www.fig.org is broken. Please stay tuned for details.]

