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=head1 Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for Perl

=head2 Welcome

SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL).

'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 "Civilization: Call To Power."' --L<www.libsdl.org>

SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more. 

=head3 Getting Started

To begin using SDL Perl read the tutorials and documentation. 

=head3 Contribute

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=item IRC

Talk to us on channel #sdl.

=item Mailing List

Send us an email at L<mailing list| mailto:sdl-devel@perl.org>.

=item Testing and Development

Join us on the trac L<site| http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl> to get started on making and grabing tickets. 

To begin testing read L<this| http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/Testing>.

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=head1 Latest News

=head2 November 13th 2009

=head3 CPAN Release
	
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. 

=head3 Active Development

SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:

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=item v2.3 100% Core of SDL C API migrated without MultiThreading 

Complete access to these functions L<SDL_API | http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/SDL_API>.

MultiThreading is doable with this release but will be focused on later

=item v2.4 SDL_Image, SDL_Net, SDL_Pango, SDL_TTF, SDL_GFX & SDL_Mixer Support

Provide support for SDL + POE collaboration.

Provide dependecies for FrozenBubble migration to CPAN. 

=item v2.5 ??? MultiThreading and Other Third Party Libraries

This release is undecided as of now. Please talk to us on the Channel or Make Tickets

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