【INTERNAL】Ventoy-1.0.15 Development Plan

[ventoy]

If everything goes well, Ventoy-1.0.15 will be released at 2020/07/11 (checked means done, unchecked means in developing)

• [x] Add GPT partition style support

• [x] Add a autosel option in auto_install and persistence plugin

• [x] Add a dir option in menu_class and menu_alias plugin

• [x] Fix the bug when boot Windows/WinPE/Wim in UEFI mode with another active CDROM/USB-CDROM

• [x] Add a refresh option in Ventoy2Disk.exe

• [x] Add a Clean Ventoy option in Ventoy2Disk.exe

New ISO support

• [x] elive_3.0.0_stable_hybrid.iso (Legacy)
• [x] Pardus-19.1-XFCE-amd64.iso (Legacy + UEFI)

[kmm2]

This could be something simple or perhaps my syntax error but I can not get "persistence" and "control" to work together. Here is my /ventoy/ventoy.json

{
    "control": [
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_MENU_MODE": "0" },
        { "VTOY_FILT_DOT_UNDERSCORE_FILE": "1" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_SEARCH_ROOT": "/ISO" },
        { "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "/ISO/live.iso" }
    ]

    "persistence" : [
        {
            "image": "/ISO/linuxmint-19.3-xfce-64bit.iso",
            "backend": "/persistence/linuxmint_19.03.img"
        }
    ]
}

To get the "control" items active I need to remove the "persistence" items from the global config. With the "persistence", it behaves as if ventoy.json did not exist. To fix in v1.0.15?

[ventoy]

There is a syntax error in the json (missing a ,)

{
    "control": [
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_MENU_MODE": "0" },
        { "VTOY_FILT_DOT_UNDERSCORE_FILE": "1" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_SEARCH_ROOT": "/ISO" },
        { "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "/ISO/live.iso" }
    ],

    "persistence" : [
        {
            "image": "/ISO/linuxmint-19.3-xfce-64bit.iso",
            "backend": "/persistence/linuxmint_19.03.img"
        }
    ]
}

When you change the json file, Remember to check it with some online tool, e.g. http://json.parser.online.fr

[KaMyKaSii]

This could be something simple or perhaps my syntax error but I can not get "persistence" and "control" to work together. Here is my /ventoy/ventoy.json

{
    "control": [
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_MENU_MODE": "0" },
        { "VTOY_FILT_DOT_UNDERSCORE_FILE": "1" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_SEARCH_ROOT": "/ISO" },
        { "VTOY_MENU_TIMEOUT": "10" },
        { "VTOY_DEFAULT_IMAGE": "/ISO/live.iso" }
    ]

    "persistence" : [
        {
            "image": "/ISO/linuxmint-19.3-xfce-64bit.iso",
            "backend": "/persistence/linuxmint_19.03.img"
        }
    ]
}

To get the "control" items active I need to remove the "persistence" items from the global config. With the "persistence", it behaves as if ventoy.json did not exist. To fix in v1.0.15?

Also remove the first blank space after persistence, like this: "persistence": [

[kmm2]

Thanks so much, it works indeed!

edit - the blank space seems irrelevant.

[KaMyKaSii]

Thanks so much, it works indeed!

edit - the blank space seems irrelevant.

I don't know if there was any change in the parsing of json in the latest versions, but when I started using ventoy.json in Ventoy 1.0.12 removing the blank space was one of the necessary changes to make it work, so I decided to mention it

[ventoy]

The space doesn't matter. The json paser doesn't change for many releases. So 1.0.12 should also ignore the space.

[KaMyKaSii]

The space doesn't matter. The json paser doesn't change for many releases. So 1.0.12 should also ignore the space.

I just tested it and in fact you are right. In this case I recommend that you follow this model (having a blank space to the left of ":" or none) in all examples of the configuration in the docs because keeping them alternate can be confusing for the user

[soares23]

For the Development Plan's it is maybe better to create a Milestone on Github is easier to find it if there are plenty of issues or Requests. Than you can put all the next features and Date of maybe realease there.

[kmm2]

Can #258 make it to 1.0.15?

[VISHALVODRO]

Thank you for adding GPT partition style support. It is another major improvement!!! Thank you very much.

[kmm2]

This will be a great release, perhaps worth a major version jump to 1.1.0

[ventoy]

@kmm2 Ventoy-1.1.0 will be released only after all of the distros in distrowatch.com (or most of them) have been supported :)