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3<h3 id="TOP">Index</h3>
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5<ul><li><a href="#Simple_DirectMedia_Library_Bindings_">Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for Perl</a>
6<ul><li><a href="#Welcome">Welcome</a>
7<ul><li><a href="#Getting_Started">Getting Started</a></li>
8<li><a href="#Contribute">Contribute</a></li>
9</ul>
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11</ul>
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13<li><a href="#Latest_News">Latest News</a>
14<ul><li><a href="#November_13th_2009">November 13th 2009</a>
15<ul><li><a href="#CPAN_Release">CPAN Release</a></li>
16<li><a href="#Active_Development">Active Development</a>
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562d96e6 18<li><a href="#Some_Eye_Candy">Some Eye Candy</a>
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106a1369 27<h1 id="Simple_DirectMedia_Library_Bindings_">Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for Perl</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
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31<h2 id="Welcome">Welcome</h2>
32<div id="Welcome_CONTENT">
dc7fe707 33<p>SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL).</p>
34<p>'Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of &quot;Civilization: Call To Power.&quot;' --<cite>www.libsdl.org</cite></p>
106a1369 35<p>SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more. </p>
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106a1369 38<h3 id="Getting_Started">Getting Started</h3>
39<div id="Getting_Started_CONTENT">
40<p>To begin using SDL Perl read the tutorials and documentation. </p>
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43<h3 id="Contribute">Contribute</h3>
44<div id="Contribute_CONTENT">
49ebb445 45<dl>
106a1369 46 <dt>IRC</dt>
47 <dd>
48 <p>Talk to us on channel #sdl.</p>
49 </dd>
50 <dt>Mailing List</dt>
51 <dd>
983945bc 52 <p>Send us an email at <a href="mailto:sdl-devel@perl.org">mailing list</a>.</p>
106a1369 53 </dd>
54 <dt>Testing and Development</dt>
55 <dd>
983945bc 56 <p>Join us on the trac <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl">site</a> to get started on making and grabing tickets. </p>
57 <p>To begin testing read <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/Testing">this</a>.</p>
106a1369 58 </dd>
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62<h1 id="Latest_News">Latest News</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
63<div id="Latest_News_CONTENT">
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66<h2 id="November_13th_2009">November 13th 2009</h2>
67<div id="November_13th_2009_CONTENT">
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70<h3 id="CPAN_Release">CPAN Release</h3>
71<div id="CPAN_Release_CONTENT">
72<p>SDL Perl is v2.2.6 on CPAN. The last of it's kind. This is the last release which will have the old API. </p>
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75<h3 id="Active_Development">Active Development</h3>
76<div id="Active_Development_CONTENT">
7af2cb93 77<p>SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:</p>
78<dl>
106a1369 79 <dt>v2.3 100% Core of SDL C API migrated without MultiThreading </dt>
80 <dd>
dc7fe707 81 <p>Complete access to these functions <a href="http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/SDL_API">SDL_API</a>.</p>
106a1369 82 <p>MultiThreading is doable with this release but will be focused on later</p>
83 </dd>
dc7fe707 84 <dt>v2.4 SDL_Image, SDL_Net, SDL_Pango, SDL_TTF, SDL_GFX &amp; SDL_Mixer Support</dt>
106a1369 85 <dd>
dc7fe707 86 <p>Provide support for SDL + POE collaboration.</p>
87 <p>Provide dependecies for FrozenBubble migration to CPAN. </p>
106a1369 88 </dd>
89 <dt>v2.5 ??? MultiThreading and Other Third Party Libraries</dt>
90 <dd>
91 <p>This release is undecided as of now. Please talk to us on the Channel or Make Tickets</p>
92 </dd>
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c7657333 95<h3 id="Some_Eye_Candy">Some Eye Candy</h3>
96<div id="Some_Eye_Candy_CONTENT">
97<p>Here is a video of a game that works on the new API:</p>
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