Re: Can LUA e coming with future Grub2

2008-09-04 Thread y.volta
Lua has been widely used. for example, the Warcraft, the 'AutoPlay Menu Studio', 'Adobe Photoshop Lightroom'; Samba4, Damn Small Linux, SciTE ... here are two list: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUses, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29#Applications so, i think, we

Re: Can LUA e coming with future Grub2

2008-09-03 Thread Bean
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:56 PM, y.volta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the Grub2 internal script engine, yes, it is little. but need more work to be improved. About the size, i think, Lua can be a replacement if this lua.mod is available at runtime. at the same time, why not load gziped mod

Re: Can LUA e coming with future Grub2

2008-09-03 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:25:12PM +0800, Bean wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:56 PM, y.volta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the Grub2 internal script engine, yes, it is little. but need more work to be improved. About the size, i think, Lua can be a replacement if this lua.mod is available

Re: Can LUA e coming with future Grub2

2008-09-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:25:12PM +0800, Bean wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:56 PM, y.volta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the Grub2 internal script engine, yes, it is little. but need more work to be improved. About the size, i think, Lua can be a replacement if this

Can LUA e coming with future Grub2

2008-09-02 Thread y.volta
hi, i get to know the Fancy menu branch has lua supported, and just wondering, the official release of Grub2 will have Lua inside ( as a mod )? if so, i'm usre, it will extend grub2 much more: for it can load its function library and its scripts. Let's suppose we are trying develop a

Re: Can LUA e coming with future Grub2

2008-09-02 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:08:13 +0800 y.volta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i get to know the Fancy menu branch has lua supported, and just wondering, the official release of Grub2 will have Lua inside ( as a mod )? It would be cool, to be sure! I never used Lua before, and it was a great

Re: Can LUA e coming with future Grub2

2008-09-02 Thread y.volta
For the Grub2 internal script engine, yes, it is little. but need more work to be improved. About the size, i think, Lua can be a replacement if this lua.mod is available at runtime. at the same time, why not load gziped mod file from disk? this will reduce the size of lua module: 100,436 bytes