Re: Pre-alpha scripting engine

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jan 20, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Serbinenko Vladimir wrote:

> Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
>
> > If your intention is to make your scripting engine standard in GRUB, 
> > I'd recommend considering what you really want to do with a scripting 
> > language under GRUB. IIRC, you haven't described what your motivation 
> > is.
> My motivation is an automatisation of booting e.g. run different 
> commands depending on circumstances (time, system crash, wake-on-..., 
> undoing booting preparation(hide,unhide,...))

I'm also curious about this. Could you provide some easily understood 
examples (in the syntax of your choosing)? What I mean is: if your 
ideal script engine were already part of GRUB, what scripts would you 
use with it? Don't just describe them; instead put them into an email.

-Hollis