Linux support Stretch goals, a little confused

Anthony Pesce · 2013-08-04T12:11:43

I see a lot of game developers on kickstarter and other crowd sourcing platforms state that if they reach a certain amount of money they will support Linux desktop. I see this generates publicity on some of the smaller tech forums I go on. My question to the season gamedevers is did you find it important to support Linux? Some games I see that are built with cross platform tools go with Windows and Mac, but not always Linux like some unity games. I know that there was a lot of posts on really big game news sites a while back about steam for Linux , but looking at the steam hardware survey http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey it appears that windows is around 90 percent of all of its users, if not more. And Linux use over the last couple months fell slightly every month. So did you find it valuable to support Linux? Thanks

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Started by timetopat July 27, 2013 11:52 PM

19 comments, last by Sik_the_hedgehog 11 years, 1 month ago

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August 04, 2013 12:11 PM

Except libpng has been nearly always backwards compatible. The only exception was the move to 1.5 when they decided to get rid of direct access to the structures (which had been deprecated long ago), and that was just so they were free to break the internal ABI (any program using only the functions was 100% safe and may even work with the old libraries if forced to link with them).

There are indeed some libraries that break the ABI every release though...

Don't pay much attention to "the hedgehog" in my nick, it's just because "Sik" was already taken =/ By the way, Sik is pronounced like seek, not like sick.