World of Goo game

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:20:19AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | I just saw today that World of Goo (a nifty little puzzle game) is on sale
> | to celebrate its aniversary, and well they actually have linux versions of
> | it, as .rpm, .deb and .tar.gz.
> 
> Any idea how long a binary that you buy now is likely to run given
> that Linux's "ABI" changes over time?

Actually the ABI seems to have gotten much more stable.  The last ABI
issues I remember were around 2.4.10 or something like that, which is
many years ago.  Most of those ABI issues even have workarounds.

> About the only binary that we've bought is Mathmatica, about 10 years
> ago, and it certainly got stranded within a couple or Red Hat
> releases.  She probably should have bought the Win9x version -- it would 
> likely still work.

Well in the case of this game, you can get the linux, windows and mac
versions.  Something is likely to work.  Besides we have virtual machines
now you could run it in later if needed.

It even includes both 32 and 64bit versions for x86 it would seem.
It has its own copies of some shared libraries it uses that it puts in
/opt along with the game.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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