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-Newbie Friendly Perl Projects +Design of SDL::Rect

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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.
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-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:
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  1. Look at SDL docs [link]
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  2. See where SDL_perl is using the same functions [link] and the docs to this file [link]
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  3. Use the pod format to add it to the source [link to using pod]
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  4. {BONUS} Come up with tutorial or cookbook [link to example]
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  5. Submit code to github [link] or email them to me [link]
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-Basically assume nothing is known. I know this may seem demeaning but I am a newbie to Perl and sometimes I hate looking for crust (docs). I call it crust because a crust is useful for me to eat a pizza slice, but it has no flavor .
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+you say things,
+I hear,
+but don't listen,
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+you show things,
+I see,
+but don't understand,
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+you write things,
+I read,
+but don't know.
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+Lately we have been working on cleaning up the XS name spaces of SDL perl. After some bumps and falls we came up with a separated Rect module. Rect is one of the most simple C struct as shown below.
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+Using the awesome perlobject.map as a reference I was able to create a blessed perl object in XS. So now SDL::Rect->new(...) gave us a blessed reference ready to go. And as an icing it would destroy itself properly no matter where it was used. But once I brought it into our existing code base, garu pointed out the extending it was a little bit of a mess. So far to extend Rect we have to something like below. Any comment or advice would be much appreciated.
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+Have at it I am a big boy. You can grab the code like this.
+Only If you don't already have a local git repo:
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mkdir SDL
+cd SDL
+git init .

+Then do this or skip to this if you already have a local git repo
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git pull git://github.com/kthakore/SDL_perl.git experimental
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