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-Can someone please point me to good XS documentation!
+Getting people to use SDL Perl: Docs, API, and Distribution
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-<i style="float:right;">A poor man begs,<br />A troubled man prays,<br />who shall answer? </i><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>This is the first time perldoc has disappointed me. The example on perlxs is wrong and fails. I do not wish to flame writers of perlxs but please check that your examples work! Ironically I know that broken tutorials is a problem with SDL perl too. </p><p>If anyone can point me to the simplest working exaple of XS with a c struct, it would be greatly appreciated.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-9063382931575650771?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div></div></div>
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+<h4><i>The road so far</i></h4><br />
+Things have been busy but fruitful. Our two core modules are getting to be a bit more stable. <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Alien-SDL+1.403">Alien::SDL 1.405</a> is behaving well. This foundational stability will start to show results in <a href="http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=SDL+2.405">SDL</a> too I believe. Most excitingly the main developer of frozen-bubble is reviewing our <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/Games-FrozenBubble-2.202/lib/Games/FrozenBubble.pm">Games::FrozenBubble</a> port to CPAN. All good and well, but to keep this project going we need to improve.<br />
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+<h4><i>Getting people to use SDL Perl</i></h4><br />
+After a long chat with a new SDL user on #sdl today, I realize we still have some way to go. Currently it seems we are lacking in a few areas. We can definitely use some feedback and help in these areas. <br />
+<br />
+<ul><li>Tutorials/Documentation<br />
+</li>
+
+<ul><li>We have more docs now on http://sdl.perl.org but they suck</li>
+<li>What type of tutorials do you think will be good for beginners?</li>
+
+<ul><li>A project start to finish?</li>
+<li>Individual tutorials for various topics?</li>
+<li>What needs to go in SDL::CookBook?</li>
+</ul></ul>
+<li>API sweetness</li>
+
+<ul><li>SDL Perl depends on distinct C libraries</li>
+
+<ul><li>This makes naming conventions, data formats different the SDL:: namespaces</li>
+<li>How do people design this stuff?</li>
+
+<ul><li>We are hackers and we just go do stuff but I think this needs some prior thought</li>
+<li>Any takers?</li>
+</ul></ul></ul>
+<li>Distribution</li>
+
+<ul><li>If SDL scripts can be packaged up simply for game developers to distribute their games it will be a big plus</li>
+
+<ul><li>One way is a Wx::Perl::Packer clone</li>
+<li>Another is a CPAN/Steam clone that game devs can upload games too and people can point and click download games?&nbsp;</li>
+</ul></ul></ul><div>If anyone wants to help in these areas please talk to us on sdl-devel@perl.org.&nbsp;</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3102167581424744259-7164362190686365958?l=yapgh.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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