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SDL Perl – Simple Direct Media Layer for Perl

Contributing

1. Fork (there is a button near the name) the repo https://github.com/PerlGameDev/SDL
2. Get a local copy: http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/
3. Hack Hack Hack Hack
4. Add your change to the CHANGELOG file
5. Add your name to the lib/pods/SDL.pod file
6. Commit using: git commit -a -m “whatever”
7. Push using: git push origin
8. Go to your git-hub site and click on pull request to tell me to pull it, when you are ready.

Roadmap

• Release 2.2.1
  • Merge the 2.1.3 Kartik fork with the 2.2.1 mainline
  • Critical Bug Fixes in several areas
  • Solve SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING problem in App.pm

• Release 2.4
  • Create build scripts and instructions for packagers (Alien or otherwise)
  • Host binary for most platforms [Maintainers are doing this]
  • Fix XS namespaces [kthakore: started work]
  • Fix initialization fails due to missing hardware (Sound Card).
  • Finish the Applet Droppers for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux [Maintainers are doing this]

• Release 2.5
  • Extend SDL API support
  • Enhance OpenGL support to latest spec or depend on POGL
  • Begin SDL::Game library

• Release 3.0.0
  • Memory Leak Fixes
  • Have an alpha parrot parse that generates either pure XS or P5NCI

Release 3.5

• Something along the lines of this : v3.5
• Have parrot parser generate parrot NCI calls for perl 6

Wish List

• Perl Game Library
• RWOps callbacks
• Return to automagical constants
• OpenGL shader support