| However, there is one thing to be said for sticking with GL_HAS_GLEXT
| (ugly though it is) and that is that it's already in the Mesa header
| that shipped with XFree86 4.0.0 - so by changing it, we delay by one
| whole XFree release the time at which we finally see an ABI compliant Mesa -
| and there ends up being a bunch of SuSE 6.4 users with halfway compliant
| code that could end up biting us for the next year or so.

I disagree.  Decide what you want and then do it.  Release a patch
on XFree86 if you have to.  Doing something because someone shipped
something in some release subverts the standardization process.
Michael made this point earlier, and I heartily agree with him.

        -db

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