Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift

Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc... by nwallin on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:04PM (#22176882)

Target the steam runtime. All popular distros will either support it out of the box or have an overlay to do it. And it doesn't change very often.

Open source is a million times easier. Your source is available. It's up to the distro's maintainer of your package to deal with compiling and binary compatibility.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

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Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:14AM (#22180645)

> It's up to the distro's maintainer of your package to deal with compiling and binary compatibility.

That's bullshit though. Why would you trust some random community maintainer to get between you and the user? Now when shit goes wrong there's one more person in the loop of blame to deal with. There are famous incidents of maintainers introducing problems to otherwise correct software, and ignoring the developer.

"I am constantly getting email from users reporting bugs that have been fixed for literally years who have no idea that the software they are running is years out of date." -jwz

How is this considered a sane way to distribute software!?

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