On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:33:13 +0000, José Fonseca <jfons...@vmware.com> wrote: > The problem from > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net/msg12493.html > > is back, and now a bit worse -- it causes Quake3 arena demo to crash (at > least the windows version). The full version works fine. I'm not sure > what other applications are hit by this. See the above thread for more > background. > > > There are two major approaches: > > 1) sort extensions chronologically instead of alphabetically. See > attached patch for that > > - for those who prefer to see extensions sorted alphabetically in > glxinfo, we could modify glxinfo to sort then before displaying > > 2) detect broken applications (i.e., by process name), and only sort > extensions strings chronologically then > > Personally I think that varying behavior based on process name is a ugly > and brittle hack, so I'd prefer 1), but I just want to put this on my > back above all, so whatever works is also fine by me.
If this is just a hack for one broken application, and we think that building in a workaround for this particular broken application is important (I don't), I still prefer an obvious hack for that broken application like feeding it a tiny extension string that it cares about, instead of reordering the extension list.
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