[syslinux] Syslinux 5.00 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/07/2012 10:33 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> Op 7-12-2012 0:43, H. Peter Anvin schreef:
> 
>> Hm, didn't realize anyone still cared about that.  We may need to
>> reconsider using long filenames.
> 
> Long filenames is fine for some random module as renaming is always
> possible. A hardcoded dependency on a module with long filenames is a
> different matter however.
> 
> QEMU has such a habit with their hardcoded video bios files
> (vga-cirrus.bin). Bochs luckily allows renaming of files and specifying
> them in its config file.
> 
> Would you suggest to rename libutil_com.c32 (and thus the name the
> menu/vesamenu modules are looking for), or let the menu modules try to
> load the first module it can find among several possible names
> (including a 8.3 one) ?
> 
> Are there any additional likewise cases of inter-module dependencies?
> 

Probably just rename them.  Actually, I'm thinking of maybe using a
different extension than .c32 for library modules might be a good idea,
to distinguish them from executable modules.

	-hpa