World of Goo game

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:40:35AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> 
> | > 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.
> 
> You take me too literally.  The ABI practically includes glibc, xlib,
> and who knows what else.

The C library ABI seems to have become very stable too.  That is part
of the above (surprisingly).

> | 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.
> 
> That's probably the best hope.

It seems to include at least SDL and a few other libs.

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Len Sorensen
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