As most of you are probably aware of, id2 and id3 games store GL
extensions in a buffer that's too small for modern systems. This usually
leads to a crash when MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR is not set, but what the
creator of this commit didn't know is that some id3 games (the more
"recent" ones) don't crash, they just truncate the string. As a result
of this commit, these games can't detect some extensions and therefore
don't work properly.
I discovered this while trying to figure out why dynamic lights in Star
Trek Voyager Elite Force (2000) suddenly broke with Mesa 18. I discussed
this with Ronald Scheidegger, who's been very helpful and helped me
figure out what was going on.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with reverting this commit and keeping
the extensions sorted by year, it doesn't impact performance and it
doesn't break anything modern. What do you think about it?
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