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====== Lynus Vaz: Enhanced scripting language ======

===== Project Plan =====

==== Summary ====
gPXE currently features a limited capability command language. A more powerful scripting language would be useful to users: they can specify boot policies or other customizations as a script, without having to understand gPXE completely, or having to edit the code.

Features:

Evaluating arithmetic/boolean expressions

If-then-else branches

Quoting

==== Outline ====
  * These changes need an arithmetic evaluator, to accept expressions.
  * Define if, then, else commands. I am thinking of something like:

if [ expr ]

statements

else

statements

fi

I think this would be the simplest to deal with.
  * Define a goto command, or alternatively for, and while commands
  * A simple syntax to handle expression expansion: something like the current ${} for variables.
  * Also, handling variables in these expressions, especially string variables
  * I also think we need to have some operators like: check if interface exists (maybe (--i net1)?)




 

==== Milestones and Timeline ====
Current work: I currently have code to evaluate arithmetic expressions, involving integers only. The usual C operators are supported (no variables, so no assignment), with their usual precedence and associativity.

Trace: • packages • bkobench • nikhilcrao • oldundiproposal • stockholm • lynusvaz • windows_pe • gpxememlayout • elf-ebi-initramfs-lnxi-howto • derekpryor • debian_and_ubuntu • winvista • oremanj • week2 • iscsiboot • willem • 2011 • windows_xp_iscsi • the_kernel • 2008