On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 06:32:50 PM Thomas Helland wrote: > 2015-08-12 17:48 GMT+02:00 Ilia Mirkin <imir...@alum.mit.edu>: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Thomas Helland > > <thomashellan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Helland <thomashellan...@gmail.com> > >> --- > >> This adds a section for the extensions nvidia has chosen to > >> call the "GL ARB 2015 Extensions" unveiled at SIGGRAPH. > > > > There are ARB extensions released every year (or more often, not > > sure)... we don't track all ARB extensions. Why are these so special > > vs e.g. the ones released along with GL 4.5 but that weren't included > > in the spec? Or any of the other ones... > > > > Well. They're not really special I guess. This just follows from the > discussion that went down on irc between me, glennk, fredrikh, ++. > > > Should GL3.txt just become extension-implementation-status.txt and > > list all non-vendor-specific extensions? So far it has stuck to actual > > GL versions (and more recently GLES). > > > > We can keep it GL / GLES versions only. Or we can extend it to a > extension-implementation-status.txt thing. Or we can split it > into two different files. I really don't care to much either way. > > If we end up adding these extensions to the file then a rename > and adding other ARB's is probably the way to go. There are > positive and negative sides to both approaches, and its not > my call to decide how, and if, we want this. It gives a nice overview > but at the same time it has PR- and "needs-to-be-kept-updated"- > implications that we may not want. I'm all ears for suggestions. > > -Thomas
I like the idea of adding an "ARB Extensions" section and listing all the ARB extensions that aren't part of a particular GL version - simply in addition to the existing content, rather than reorganizing it. GL3.txt has been a misnomer for a while, but I don't care whether we rename it or not; it doesn't bother me. --Ken
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