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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

=over

=item IRC

Talk to us on channel #sdl.

=item Mailing List

Send us an email at sdl-devel@perl.org.

=item Testing and Development

Join us on the development wiki. 

=back

=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:

=over

=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

=back

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7af2cb93	1	=pod
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	3	=head1 Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for Perl
	4
	5	=head2 Welcome
	6
dc7fe707	7	SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL).
	8
	9	'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>
	10
7af2cb93	11	SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more.
	12
	13	=head3 Getting Started
	14
	15	To begin using SDL Perl read the tutorials and documentation.
	16
	17	=head3 Contribute
	18
	19	=over
	20
	21	=item IRC
	22
	23	Talk to us on channel #sdl.
	24
	25	=item Mailing List
	26
	27	Send us an email at sdl-devel@perl.org.
	28
	29	=item Testing and Development
	30
	31	Join us on the development wiki.
	32
	33	=back
	34
	35	=head1 Latest News
	36
	37	=head2 November 13th 2009
	38
	39	=head3 CPAN Release
	40
	41	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.
	42
	43	=head3 Active Development
	44
	45	SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:
	46
	47	=over
	48
	49	=item v2.3 100% Core of SDL C API migrated without MultiThreading
	50
dc7fe707	51	Complete access to these functions L<SDL_API \| http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/SDL_API>.
dc7fe707	52
7af2cb93	53	MultiThreading is doable with this release but will be focused on later
7af2cb93	54
dc7fe707	55	=item v2.4 SDL_Image, SDL_Net, SDL_Pango, SDL_TTF, SDL_GFX & SDL_Mixer Support
	56
	57	Provide support for SDL + POE collaboration.
7af2cb93	58
dc7fe707	59	Provide dependecies for FrozenBubble migration to CPAN.
7af2cb93	60
	61	=item v2.5 ??? MultiThreading and Other Third Party Libraries
	62
	63	This release is undecided as of now. Please talk to us on the Channel or Make Tickets
	64
	65	=back
	66
	67	=cut