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-More Games + Update
+Why I will be sticking to CPAN
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-<div style="text-align: right;"><i><br />
-idle digits,<br />
-play,<br />
-away,<br />
-idle digits.<br />
+<div style="text-align: right;"><i>sculpted in clay,</i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>then fired to glass.<br />
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-So while I am hacking away on v2.4 and <a href="http://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl/tree/experimental">breaking</a> a lot of things. Here is a link to some more <a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Eg.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html">games</a> for SDL Perl. These only work in windows now but I will look into bringing them to CPAN (with Garry's permission). <br />
+Recently there was really long <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel/2009/09/msg1424.html">discussion </a>on sdl-devel@perl.org about providing packages for SDL perl rather than focusing on CPAN releases. The gists of the argument was that SDL perl should be making platform specific packages for end users. I agree with this idea but I do have to face the truth. <br />
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-<i>--yapgh</i><br />
+The truth is there are very few developers currently working on SDL Perl. The truth is CPAN provides several tools that which currently drives development for SDL Perl. There are people interested in packaging SDL Perl (<a href="http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49003">kmx</a>, <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel/2009/09/msg1433.html">jean</a> and Jerome Quelin). The truth is there are other very <a href="http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49084">critical areas</a> we can focus on. <br />
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-These where reported by Garry Taylor. Here is the rest of the email:<br />
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-<blockquote><i>Hi all,</i><br />
-<i>I hadn't checked this newsgroup in a while and was happy to see </i><br />
-<i>that it still alive and well. I saw that some people had been sharing </i><br />
-<i>some SDL Perl games online, and I had a few to share as well. At </i><br />
-<i>"http://home.comcast.net/~g.f.taylor/GarrysGames.html" you can find four </i><br />
-<i>games I have written as well as a simple flip book program to let a </i><br />
-<i>child play at making animation on the computer. The games are "Toad" (a </i><br />
-<i>Frogger wanna be), "RabbitHat" (like Centipede), "BunnyHunt" (sort of </i><br />
-<i>like Pac-Man) and "Bonk The Buggies". All (with the exception of Toad </i><br />
-<i>which in its very first incarnation was a game I wrote in TRS-80 Basic </i><br />
-<i>back in 1981) were written originally to run on my Windows 3.11 PC for </i><br />
-<i>my little girl so that she could play games which were not quite so </i><br />
-<i>violent as games were starting to become at the time.</i><br />
-<i><br />
-</i><br />
-<i>A few years ago I got the idea of trying to get them to run again </i><br />
-<i>by rewriting them in Perl. The downloads are Windows XP/Vista installs </i><br />
-<i>which include a bare bones Perl environment for running the games (the </i><br />
-<i>installs put the code into its own separate place, and shouldn't </i><br />
-<i>interfere with your existing Perl setups). I did this so that I could </i><br />
-<i>share the games with friends and family who either don't have SDL </i><br />
-<i>installed, don't have Perl installed, or don't do any programming and </i><br />
-<i>just needed something that will run. The code as it currently stands </i><br />
-<i>was not written for general publication, so there are probably places </i><br />
-<i>where the Perl code itself is not always the best looking it could be, </i><br />
-<i>but the games themselves work pretty well. Also, it is worth noting </i><br />
-<i>that I wound up being lazy and made a few additions to the Perl SDL code </i><br />
-<i>that I was using to add an additional function or two for printing text </i><br />
-<i>onto the screen that was centered or right aligned.</i><br />
-<i><br />
-</i><br />
-<i>While I have not made any Unix installs for the code, I have </i><br />
-<i>actually run the games on a few Linux machines that I have access to, </i><br />
-<i>where I also had installed SDL. I have not updated my SDL installs in </i><br />
-<i>several years now, so there may be complications that arise if running </i><br />
-<i>it with a new version of SDL.</i><br />
-<i><br />
-</i><br />
-<i>I hope you enjoy the games (or at least aren't too mean about it </i><br />
-<i>if you don't).</i><br />
-<i>Garry Taylor</i></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-500220938152318100?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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+If there are people looking to package SDL Perl for their platform please contact us at sdl-devel@perl.org.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-6565605958523853965?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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