X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pages%2Findex.pod;h=8abc8ed0cfb619eaa4818a7a7e512ea2a639d395;hb=411e0b6a19b323b88847fbffe2323afe98e9f8dc;hp=0f367d2735e6eb9b19a01255d117f766abb05889;hpb=106a136922312d38a84b782678b6c4d633089b1e;p=sdlgit%2FSDL-Site.git diff --git a/pages/index.pod b/pages/index.pod index 0f367d2..8abc8ed 100644 --- a/pages/index.pod +++ b/pages/index.pod @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ =head2 Welcome +SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL). + +'Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, +3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the +award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."' --L + SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more. =head3 Getting Started @@ -16,43 +22,55 @@ To begin using SDL Perl read the tutorials and documentation. =item IRC -Talk to us on channel #sdl. +Talk to us on channel L<#sdl|http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&server=irc.perl.org&channel=%23sdl> . =item Mailing List -Send us an email at sdl-devel@perl.org. +Send us an email at L. + +Our archives are located at L and L. + +We also have a L. + +For help send an empty email to L< sdl-devel-help@perl.org| mailto:sdl-devel-help@perl.org>. + +To subscribe to the mailing lists send an empty email to L< sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org| mailto:sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org>. + +To unsubscribe send an empty email to L< sdl-devel-unsubscribe@perl.org | mailto:sdl-devel-unsubscribe@perl.org>. =item Testing and Development -Join us on the development wiki. +Join us on the trac L to get started on making and grabing tickets. + +To begin testing read L. =back =head1 Latest News -=head2 November 13th 2009 +=head2 July 01 2010 =head3 CPAN Release -SDL Perl is v2.2.6 on CPAN. The last of it's kind. This is the last release which will have the old API. +L RC is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out ;o) + +SDL Perl at v2.2.6 on CPAN is the last of it's kind which will have the old API. =head3 Active Development SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below: -=over - -=item v2.3 100% Core of SDL C API migrated without MultiThreading +=head3 TODO -MultiThreading is doable with this release but will be focused on later +=over 4 -=item v2.4 SDL_Net, SDL_Pango, SDL_TTF & SDL_Mixer Support +=item * -SDL_Net due to interest in bring POE/AnyEvent to SDL, SDL_Pango to support the new FrozenBubble migration. +Make SDL work with Frozen Bubble -=item v2.5 ??? MultiThreading and Other Third Party Libraries +Frozen Bubble is being reviewed as we speak! Until then -This release is undecided as of now. Please talk to us on the Channel or Make Tickets + cpan Games::FrozenBubble =back