[waffle] [wflinfo] [RFC] platform-specific info from wflinfo

[Dylan Baker]

I don't know how I missed this,

I don't care if the output is character for character with glxinfo, as
long as it conveys the same information.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 06:01:26PM -0800, Chad Versace wrote:
> On 02/10/2015 01:20 PM, Frank Henigman wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Frank Henigman <fjhenigman at google.com> wrote:
> 
> > Looks like Issue #3 is the format of the information.  I thought it
> > was given we should duplicate existing glxinfo/eglinfo/etc as closely
> > as possible, in order to be a drop-in replacement, but if I follow the
> > suggestions Chad made on github
> > (https://github.com/fjhenigman/waffle/commit/d0b45bb9850e6ae29ee379a2d3e8ba14afc1b872)
> > we'll be diverging.  "Improving" on existing tools is ok with me - I
> > don't have a huge investment in code to parse their output - but I
> > wonder if others feel differently.
> 
> (+Jordan, +Dylan, questions below)
> 
> Oh, when I made those Github comments, I didn't know you were trying to
> duplicate glxinfo output verbatim. Now I understand why the GLX lines
> look so different from wflinfo's current output.
> 
> glxinfo wraps long lines for extension strings and separates extension names with commas.
> wflinfo intentionally prints extensions strings in their original form: single line,
> extension names separated by spaces. If I recall correctly, Jordan and Dylan wanted
> that format so that consumers who parsed wflinfo text output would be guaranteed a stable
> format.
> 
> If wflinfo has mixed line formats (some lines are comma-separated and wrapped, some
> are space-separated), I fear that may cause problems for already-existing consumers.
> Dylan, Jordan, do you have an opinion here? Does this really matter?
> 


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