Re: [Dri-devel] gl extensions on/off

[Keith W. <kei...@ya...>]

Alexander Stohr wrote:
> 
> > > Sure, an app can always elect whether or not it uses
> > particular extensions.
> > > Maybe I'm missing your point.
> > "An app"? Probably. But some particular (very nice, BTW) apps
> > still very
> > dumb in terms of configuration so I'd like to have ability to turn
> > extensions on/off myself, without modifying the app code (as a user).
> > Anyway, this RFE has priority 0.00000001 (where 1.0 is "Normal").
> 
> I could see use of this feature for cases where the application
> is currently under cunstruction with multiple targets. One that
> has the extension and another that doesnt have. It will speed up
> development of such things.
> 
> In the error case some features can be fine tuned for analyzing
> or quick eliminating of error condtions.
> 
> For benchmarks it could be interesting to switch features on and
> off in order to determine the specific performance difference.
> 

I haven't tested the mesa.conf mechanism in a long time, but this is exactly
(one of) the things it provided.

Keith

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