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Frozen Bubble coming to CPANFriday, 04 September 2009Tags: [CPAN] [Frozen Bubble] [Perl] [SDL] The frozen wind, made me shiver, with excitement .
There has been some interest in making Frozen Bubble cross platform so I have forked Frozen Bubble v2.0 to my github repo . Any contributors are welcome! I will eventually be removing hacks that were needed to make Frozen Bubble work with the old SDL perl. The plan is to make Frozen Bubble cross platform by removing platform specific hacks and dependencies. One of the major switch will be from BSD sockets to SDL_net through SDL perl or XS. The main goal would be to be able to do cpan install FrozenBubble To do this the Makefile.PL will need to be rewritten a little bit. Moreover we will need to make test using code from Frozen Bubble so that it can be smoke tested on CPAN. If contributors need more information please contact me.
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Newbie Friendly Perl ProjectsThursday, 03 September 2009Tags: [CPAN] [Perl] [SDL] [personal] A seed needs soft soil and water to grow This is a reply to szabgab's post on how to get newbies interested in Perl modules. Being a newbie in Perl myself I thought I should take a shot.
I was thinking you can make projects more accessible to newbies by having a step by step plan included with where they need to look. For example for docs of SDL_perl:
Look at SDL docs [ link ]
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