Re: Version 3.0 ideas

2009-08-05 Thread Kartik Thakore
So would a earlier release of parrot implementation be warrented as we are heading there anyway? This would be instead of phasing Xs to parrot later. Will this work well for perl 5 ? my priority is perl 5. Kartik Thakore On 5-Aug-09, at 4:57 PM, chromatic wrote: On Wednesday 05 August 200

Version 3.0 ideas

2009-08-05 Thread Kyle Is a N00b
Here is the idea: For version v3.0.0 Using Parrot and the compiler tools, write a parser for C header files that can generate Perl 5 NCI or Parrot NCI code. It should let the developer write an SDL binding for either language by running the parser against SDL.h and its friends. For output, it woul

Re: Game::PerlInvaders

2009-08-05 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 15:06 -0400, Kartik Thakore wrote: > Awesome! A few things. A new cpan distro is going to appear. Moreover > we have a roadmap plan now and on of the things on it are a parrot > parser so that users will not have to compile sdl bindings and our > work will carry over int

Re: Game::PerlInvaders

2009-08-05 Thread Kartik Thakore
Awesome! A few things. A new cpan distro is going to appear. Moreover we have a roadmap plan now and on of the things on it are a parrot parser so that users will not have to compile sdl bindings and our work will carry over into perl6. If you can mention this that would be great! P.S. One o

Game::PerlInvaders

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! I've been dabbling with SDL for a few months, and as I think that the lack of an easy way to code cool games is one of the reasons we don't get much fresh Perl blood, I've set out to write a small game during YAPC. Reading about Kartiks efforts to make SDL installable also motivated me. An

Download available

2009-08-05 Thread Kartik Thakore
I have made a download available for v2.1.3 until the sdlperl-2.2.0 and master branch is stabalized. Kartik Thakore

Its that time of year again!

2009-08-05 Thread David Goehrig
Since Kartik Thakore has expressed interest in getting SDL Perl back in gear, I'm going to help the SDL Perl community get back into the swing of things. At the request of Carlo "zED" Caputo and Rodolfo Borges, I moved the development repository off of a now defunct SVN server, into github. The new

Re: Test Windows Build on Module

2009-08-05 Thread David Goehrig
kartik, I have a Windows instance that I use for testing builds, but it is dumped on a backup tape somewhere. Let's try to unravel what we really need to produce a more friendly build system. Also in the 2.2.x branch, there is the preliminary work for a MacOS X applet dropper, and I'd like to bui