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3=head1 Simple DirectMedia Library Bindings for Perl
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5=head2 Welcome
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dc7fe707 7SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL).
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a8a21960 9'Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick,
103D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the
11award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."' --L<www.libsdl.org>
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7af2cb93 13SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more.
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15=head3 Getting Started
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17To begin using SDL Perl read the tutorials and documentation.
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19=head3 Contribute
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21=over
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23=item IRC
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ff75472c 25Talk to us on channel L<#sdl|http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&server=irc.perl.org&channel=%23sdl> .
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27=item Mailing List
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983945bc 29Send us an email at L<mailing list| mailto:sdl-devel@perl.org>.
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411e0b6a 31Our archives are located at L<mail-archive | http://www.mail-archive.com/sdl-devel@perl.org/> and L<nntp.perl | http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel>.
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33We also have a L<rssfeed | http://www.nntp.perl.org/rss/perl.sdl.devel.rdf>.
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35For help send an empty email to L< sdl-devel-help@perl.org| mailto:sdl-devel-help@perl.org>.
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37To subscribe to the mailing lists send an empty email to L< sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org| mailto:sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org>.
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39To unsubscribe send an empty email to L< sdl-devel-unsubscribe@perl.org | mailto:sdl-devel-unsubscribe@perl.org>.
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7af2cb93 41=item Testing and Development
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983945bc 43Join us on the trac L<site| http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl> to get started on making and grabing tickets.
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45To begin testing read L<this| http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/wiki/Testing>.
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47=back
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49=head1 Latest News
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ca0a3441 51=head2 July 01 2010
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53=head3 CPAN Release
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ca0a3441 55L<SDL 2.5|http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore> RC is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out ;o)
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a8a21960 57SDL Perl at v2.2.6 on CPAN is the last of it's kind which will have the old API.
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7af2cb93 59=head3 Active Development
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61SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:
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f060e594 63=head3 TODO
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a8a21960 65=over 4
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a8a21960 67=item *
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c59d9ab1 69Make SDL work with Frozen Bubble
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c59d9ab1 71Frozen Bubble is being reviewed as we speak! Until then
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c59d9ab1 73 cpan Games::FrozenBubble
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7af2cb93 75=back
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