Re: Idea: elimination of the normal mode

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On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <address@hidden> wrote:
> It has anything what core provides. If by this you get core smaller then I
> am all for it. If it makes it larger then I would propose to find free space
> from somewhere else. Core.img just have to be standalone application so user
> can do recovery if something gets wrong in installation or something else.
>
> I do not know how well grub scripting is integrated to normal mode so check
> that out first.

Hi,

With my suggestion, core.img would contain:

minicmd + basic console interface + line scanner + fs modules

It would be slightly bigger because we also add the option analyzer.
But it may also reduce size due to better function separation.

the line scanner would read a config file, which instruct extra
modules to be loaded For example, to archive the same function of
normal mode, we need:

advanced console interface + text menu interface + script engine.

Some advantage of this scheme:

1, One set of command. Now, if we want to use command like search, we
must also include normal.mod, whose purpose is just to provide the
option analyzer.

2, The separation of interface and script engine.
Interface deal with interaction with user, like draw the menu, choose
an menu item, edit a string, etc. Script engine is responsible for the
interpretation of commands. These two parts are independent, we
shouldn't bundle them into a single normal.mod.This would make modules
like graphic interface more difficult to implement.

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Bean