[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/2] mesa/extensions: Sort the extension table alphabetically

[Ian Romanick]

On 11/18/2015 06:15 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>> On 11/18/2015 03:01 PM, Nanley Chery wrote:
>>> From: Nanley Chery <nanley.g.chery at intel.com>
>>>
>>> Make it easier to determine where to add new extensions.
>>> Performed with the vim sort command.
>>
>> Uh... no, please.  Extensions should be sorted in each group, but what
>> is wrong with the old group ordering?  ARB, KHR, OES, EXT, then vendors.
> 
> There's nothing wrong with it other than it's not possible to ensure
> people get it right (see this patch). By actually alphabetizing the
> list, we can programmatically check that things are ordered properly
> (see patch 2/2).

Well... you can, it's just more work.

> I don't see a problem with reordering the groups... that doesn't make
> anything harder.

Most of the time when I'm looking at things in the extension list, I'm
trying to look at things by group.  Most of the groups stay together
when the list is totally alphabetized, so that doesn't hurt.  What I
think will be annoying is having all of the vendor extensions scattered
about.

I guess we can try it like this.  I reserve the right to submit patches
the reorder the groups and update the test if I find it too annoying. :)