</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#Latest_News">Latest News</a>
-<ul><li><a href="#November_13th_2009">November 13th 2009</a>
-<ul><li><a href="#CPAN_Release">CPAN Release</a></li>
+<ul><li><a href="#October_27th_2011">October 27th 2011</a>
+<ul><li><a href="#CPAN_Release_SDL_2_534">CPAN Release SDL 2.534</a></li>
+<li><a href="#SDL_Manual_Writing_Games_with_SDL_Pe">SDL Manual: Writing Games with SDL Perl</a></li>
<li><a href="#Active_Development">Active Development</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 id="Welcome">Welcome</h2>
<div id="Welcome_CONTENT">
+<p>SDL Perl are a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL).</p>
+<p>'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."' --<cite>www.libsdl.org</cite></p>
<p>SDL Perl is an active and exciting project with many facets. Explore this website to learn more. </p>
</div>
<h3 id="Getting_Started">Getting Started</h3>
<div id="Getting_Started_CONTENT">
-<p>To begin using SDL Perl read the tutorials and documentation. </p>
+<p>A new SDL::Manual is being prepared for new users. In the mean time take a look at the documentation, ask for help on the mailing lists or irc channel, and see the examples in the source code.</p>
</div>
<h3 id="Contribute">Contribute</h3>
<dl>
<dt>IRC</dt>
<dd>
- <p>Talk to us on channel #sdl.</p>
+ <p>Talk to us on channel <a href="http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=89f140215d60860684cee2f6a917607f&server=irc.perl.org&channel=%23sdl">#sdl</a> .</p>
</dd>
<dt>Mailing List</dt>
<dd>
- <p>Send us an email at sdl-devel@perl.org.</p>
+ <p>Send us an email at <a href="mailto:sdl-devel@perl.org">mailing list</a>.</p>
+ <p>Our archives are located at <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/sdl-devel@perl.org/">mail-archive</a> and <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.sdl.devel">nntp.perl</a>.</p>
+ <p>We also have a <a href="http://www.nntp.perl.org/rss/perl.sdl.devel.rdf">rssfeed</a>.</p>
+ <p>For help send an empty email to <a href="mailto:sdl-devel-help@perl.org">sdl-devel-help@perl.org</a>.</p>
+ <p>To subscribe to the mailing lists send an empty email to <a href="mailto:sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org">sdl-devel-subscribe@perl.org</a>.</p>
+ <p>To unsubscribe send an empty email to <a href="mailto:sdl-devel-unsubscribe@perl.org">sdl-devel-unsubscribe@perl.org</a>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Testing and Development</dt>
<dd>
- <p>Join us on the development wiki. </p>
+ <p>Join us on <a href="https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL/issues">GitHub</a> to get started on making and grabbing issues.</p>
+ <p>To get started on testing SDL see our <a href="https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL/wiki/Testing">Testing Wiki Page</a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<div id="Latest_News_CONTENT">
</div>
-<h2 id="November_13th_2009">November 13th 2009</h2>
-<div id="November_13th_2009_CONTENT">
+<h2 id="October_27th_2011">October 27th 2011</h2>
+<div id="October_27th_2011_CONTENT">
</div>
-<h3 id="CPAN_Release">CPAN Release</h3>
-<div id="CPAN_Release_CONTENT">
-<p>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. </p>
+<h3 id="CPAN_Release_SDL_2_534">CPAN Release SDL 2.534</h3>
+<div id="CPAN_Release_SDL_2_534_CONTENT">
+<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?query=SDL&mode=module">SDL 2.534</a> is on CPAN! The new API has many changes and much more improvements. So check it out.</p>
+<p>SDL Perl at v2.2.6 on CPAN is the last of its kind which will have the old API.</p>
+
+</div>
+<h3 id="SDL_Manual_Writing_Games_with_SDL_Pe">SDL Manual: Writing Games with SDL Perl</h3>
+<div id="SDL_Manual_Writing_Games_with_SDL_Pe-2">
+<p>The grant <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/2010q3-grant-proposal-manual-f.html">proposal</a> has been accepted by <a href="http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/08/accepted-grants-for-2010q3.html">The Perl Foundation</a>. SDL_Manual is in continous development on <a href="http://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual">github</a>.</p>
+<p>More up to date versions of the books are also available in <a href="https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual/blob/master/dist/SDL_Manual.html">HTML</a> and <a href="https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL_Manual/blob/master/dist/SDL_Manual.pdf">PDF</a> formats. </p>
</div>
<h3 id="Active_Development">Active Development</h3>
<div id="Active_Development_CONTENT">
-<p>SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. The process is as below:</p>
-<dl>
- <dt>v2.3 100% Core of SDL C API migrated without MultiThreading </dt>
- <dd>
- <p>MultiThreading is doable with this release but will be focused on later</p>
- </dd>
- <dt>v2.4 SDL_Net, SDL_Pango, SDL_TTF & SDL_Mixer Support</dt>
- <dd>
- <p>SDL_Net due to interest in bring POE/AnyEvent to SDL, SDL_Pango to support the new FrozenBubble migration. </p>
- </dd>
- <dt>v2.5 ??? MultiThreading and Other Third Party Libraries</dt>
- <dd>
- <p>This release is undecided as of now. Please talk to us on the Channel or Make Tickets</p>
- </dd>
-</dl>
+<p>SDL Perl is being actively developed to v3.0. We are adding many new SDLx::* modules to provide a more Perly interface to SDL. Please review, request or even hack the code. Talk to us on the irc channel or mailing lists.</p>
</div>
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