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+The Future and Beyond!
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-<div style="text-align: right;"><i>struggle,</i><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>live,</i><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span id="goog_1253289394523"></span><span id="goog_1253289394524"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a>cease,</i><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>die</i><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After a struggling with XS and opaque C structs in the experimental SDL::Rect for a long time. <a href="http://blog.woobling.org/2009/09/hackathon-summary.html">Nothingmuch </a>comes along and solves my problem with this beautiful module<a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Enuffin/XS-Object-Magic-0.02/"> XS::Object::Magic</a>. So I will start moving my ugly XS to Magic Land.<br /><br /><b>SDL Perl Tutorials</b><br /><br />This past week I have been working on the sorry state of SDL Perl tutorials. Currently I am working on a <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/TetrisPL">Tetris Clone</a>. I am hoping to have it done by next Thrusday for TPM meeting. This tutorial is a mix of several tutorials I <a href="http://ezide.com/games/writing-games.html">found online</a>. Another <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel/2009/09/msg1446.html">Lunar Lander tutorial</a> has been submitted by Nelson Ferraz.<br /><br />If anyone has any really good tutorials for game development (regardless of language) or even request of tutorials. Send it my way I will look into them.<br /><br /><b>New SDL Perl site</b><br /><br />Also we have begin work on a new site. It is still needs work. <a href="http://sdlperl.ath.cx/">New Site</a>.<br /><br /><i>--yapgh</i> <br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-1314526975514787247?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div></div></div>
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+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>I do not think about awesomeness...<br />
+I just am awesomeness<br />
+n.n<br />
+--<a href="http://irclog.perlgeek.de/sdl/2009-10-20#i_1620287">KatrinaTheLamia</a></i><br />
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+<h3>Updates</h3>Since the last post SDL Perl has seen an increase of interest to both use and contribute to SDL Perl. Before I dig into the updates, I would like to acknowledge them.<br />
+<h3>Core Development</h3><b>Acme (<a href="http://use.perl.org/%7Eacme/journal/">Leon Brocard</a>):</b> Has started to work on the Redesign Effort with me. The help is much appreciated! Enjoy your vacation. <br />
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+<h3>Website and Windows Testing</h3><b>FROGGS (Tobias Leich):</b> Came in as a new user to SDL Perl. And after breaking the redesigned SDL Perl in as many ways possible he has decided to help out on the new site. <br />
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+<h3>Last Legacy Release</h3><br />
+Ok! Now this weekend hopefully we will release our last legacy release, after this we move on! This release will focus on showing of SDL + Perl possibilities.<br />
+<h3>Pong + SDL::Game::Rect</h3><a href="http://onionstand.blogspot.com/">garu</a> has been working on making SDL object extensions that provide a more perly way to use and play with the SDL bindings. To demonstrate the benefits of this SDL::Tutorial::Pong is done and being polished up. SDL::Game::Rect is a peek in to the design and vision we have for SDL down the road.<br />
+<h3>Design</h3>The design we have settled on for future release for SDL Perl can be broken in to two layers, SDL::* and SDL::Game::*. Previously the SDL Perl library tried to provide C bindings and provide Perl Idiomatic access. This was messy in regards to the single responsibility principle (do one thing and do it well).<br />
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+We have decided to separate these two focuses into the two name spaces SDL::* and SDL::Game::*. SDL::* will provide straight access to SDL's C API, nothing less and nothing more. SDL::Game::* will extend and make pretty unicorns for Perl. <br />
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+This design has already begin to pay of. One major benefit been in the XS <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/commit/20f544ea4f3e7b34c68445aba89ed9c69d411ddf">readability</a>. Moreover since structs are treated as objects, Perl manages their destruction, and deliver less memory leaks.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-4327446497206876141?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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