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Re: [RFC] grub-install C rewrite


From: Seth Goldberg
Subject: Re: [RFC] grub-install C rewrite
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:10:42 -0700

 Ditto here.  I'd prefer it stay *sh.

 --S

On Sep 26, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 03:08:54PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' 
> Serbinenko wrote:
>> Hello, all. Recently I made some order in hostdisk.c and getroot.c
>> involving splitting in OS-specific parts.
>> In the same time I added WinAPI version of getroot/hostdisk allowing
>> grub-probe to work on windows natively
>> Also on-going is AROS-specific parts.
>> Windows and AROS are not friendly with bash.
>> The attempt to make both multiple files of same type work and handling
>> whitespaces/newlines/... in filenames would result in very ugly code
>> with loads of evals.
>> Current code may have subtle assumptions on behaviour of common tools
>> like sed and on locale (E.g. "[a-z]" doesn't cover u if locale is Estonian).
>> So to check viability I rewrote grub-install in C. This is mostly proof
>> of concept with loads of FIXMEs but I could boot i386-pc install made
>> with it. In many aspects (static variables, some tests, general
>> structure) it's reminiscent of sh version of grub-install it's based on.
>> Some functionality is likely to stay OS-specific, e.g. executing
>> compressors or determining firmware.
>> 
>> I'd like to know the opinion of other people on possible switchover. If
>> switched then it'll have to be all grub-install, grub-mkrescue,
>> grub-mknetdir and grub-mkstandalone.
>> I'd like to hear from other people.
> 
> Given the number of times I have had to edit grub-install in the past to
> get it to work right on a powerpc machine (I think it is now working OK),
> I would hate to have had that be C code.  After all it really is mainly
> a wrapper around other grub tools.
> 
> I think windows not having bash is a rather low priority to most people
> compared to actually be able to work with grub on the platforms where
> it is pretty much the only choice.
> 
> So personally, based on my experience, I hate this idea.
> 
> -- 
> Len Sorensen
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