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-Alien::SDL 0.01 released!!! +Newbie Friendly Perl Projects

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I just code
don't know where it leads
or
how I will get there
I just code


With yesterday's frantic coding to get windows compatibility setup we were left with a very crude way of installing. After some late night hacking I finally came up with Alias's suggestion to have Alien::SDL. All thanks to Alias's  generous access to his windows farm, I was able to make a easier module to install SDL deps on windows. Future plans are in place to get sources and compile them for other platform.Hopefully a SDL perl release will be out soon to use Alien::SDL now.


The above script is in test/testsprite.pl.

Until then you can do:

in cpan
cpan> install File::Fetch
cpan> install Archive::Extract
cpan> install Alien::SDL

and in cmd
pip http://cloud.github.com/downloads/kthakore/SDL_perl/SDL_Perl-v2.2.2.tar.gz


Please post any feedback here.

Enjoy,
yapgh
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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]
    2. +
  2. See where SDL_perl is using the same functions [link] and the docs to this file [link]
    3. +
  3. Use the pod format to add it to the source [link to using pod]
    4. +
  4. {BONUS} Come up with tutorial or cookbook [link to example]
    5. +
  5. Submit code to github [link] or email them to me [link]
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    6. +

+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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+--yapgh
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