Re: some design issues

[Marco Gerards]

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:

> I think the name "menu.lst" is really strange, so I don't like it. But I 
> don't know if grub.cfg is nice. What do you think? I sometimes think 
> that "grubrc" might be better (like "bashrc").

I like grub.cfg.

> Next thing. I think it is a bad idea to make the variable for a menu 
> global, because this is not compatible with having multiple nested 
> menus. But some commands want to access information on the environment 
> (such as current menu). I can think of two ways to address this issue:
>
> 1. Pass one more argument to each command. This argument would be a 
> pointer to struct context, and contains a pointer to current menu, etc.
>
> 2. Provide global functions to access information. These functions would 
> have to use global variables.

With 2 you mean that the function accesses the current menu all the
time?  Is accessing another menu useful in some cases?

Thanks,