[sldev] SNOW-222 : request before committing the patch

[Philippe (Merov) Bossut]

Hi guys,

I've been banging my head all day on a vexing problem with this patch on
Mac. Aimee and me reported the same issue on IRC but we both wrote it off on
some silly install we did on our dev environment. Seemed weird enough we'd
get the same issue so digging deeper, it looks like the problem is more
serious. I won't go into the gory details but here's the short version:
- On Mac, you get to a point where no texture download at all, you basically
walk in a land of gray...
- It's not systematic mind you (things do sometimes work fine)
- When it starts though, it's there to stay
- the trunk version or plugin-api are not affected: so it's something I did
when merging (haven't identified what yet...)
- Clearing the cache doesn't work: actually, it's a way to get the problem
to repro. It seems that the file texture.cache can't get created at all...
- Launching an unaffected version of the viewer makes the problem go away
for a while... till it starts again...