Re: Roadmap for LUA support in GRUB

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:08:24AM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> > However, we only import code from external projects when there's an 
> > important
> > reason to do so.  For example, we imported LZMA code because we needed the
> > best compression around, and we didn't want to reinvent the wheel.  In the
> > specific case of LUA, this compromise didn't make sense to us since we 
> > already
> > had a scripting engine.
> 
> ...the real reason seems to be that you don't really believe in Lua as a 
> primary
> scripting language for GRUB, correct?

No.  It's quoted above in this mail.  Please read it again...

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