Hello World!
I'm pleased to announce after 6 months of way too much work to do, I've
finally managed to get enough time (between getting married and starting
a family) to put together a new SDL Perl release for Xmas 2006. What
has been added to this release is true Mac OS X support! Since I
finally own 3 Macs, I decided it was time to work around the previous
problems and get an honest solution for that platform. The result is a
"SDL Perl.app" application bundle which can be distributed to anyone.
It registers the file type .sdlpl as a SDL Perl script. It is possible
to have multiple versions of the bundle installed at the same time,
(tough getting the OS to recognize them is a different issue :) You can
now drag and drop scripts onto the app icon in your bar to run them.
Currently only one SDL Perl app is runable at a time, but that
limitation will be worked around within the next 6 months :)
You can download the code:
svn co http://sdlperl.nexttolast.com/sdlperl
Let me know if you have any patches that haven't made it into subversion
yet, and I will roll them into the 2.2.2 release which will go into CPAN
before the 25th of this month.
You can see the 1 screenshot of it running natively on the Mac at:
http://sdlperl.nexttolast.com/
Additionally, I hope to get similar application bundle support working
for Linux and Windows over the next few months. It is also worth noting
that the test scripts now have all their required data embedded in them,
making SDL Perl applications more deliverable now than they were before.
I hope everyone has a very Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year,
Dave
