[Mesa-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/4] New drirc options for Worms WMD, Tropico 5 and Crookz

[Samuel Pitoiset]

On 02/10/2017 02:45 PM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Samuel Pitoiset
> <samuel.pitoiset at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Mesa currently doesn't allow to create 3.1+ compatibility profiles mainly
>> because various features are unimplemented and bugs can happen.
>>
>> However, some buggy apps request a compat profile without using any old
>> features but they fail to start because Mesa clamps the GLSL version to
>> 130 for compat.
>
> And presumably you can't just hand them a core profile because they'll
> do something like glGetString(GL_EXTENSIONS)?

I forgot to mention that Crookz actually uses some compat features, but 
the current implementation seems to be enough.

And yes, Crookz needs that at least (can't force a core profile there).

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