Re: Packaging SDL_perl 2.5*, and frozen-bubble for Debian Experimental

Upi,

If you need any help email us at [email protected] or #sdl  
irc.perl.org .

Have a look at the repo. We also have tickets here

http://sdlperl.ath.cx/projects/SDLPerl/report/11

Here are the docs for SDLPerl here
http://sdl.perl.org


Kartik Thakore

On 2010-08-07, at 1:49 PM, UPi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I am the author of Pang Zero. I will see if I can release a new  
> version "soon"; thanks for the heads up. I have another game based  
> on SDL_perl called Vacuum Magic (http://apocalypse.rulez.org/ 
> vacuum), which is a lot more complex than Pang Zero and uses OpenGL.  
> I'll try to port that one as well.
>
> Best regards,
> UPi.
>
> Kartik Thakore wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I am the maintainer for SDL_perl (http://search.cpan.org/~kthakore/  
>> <http://search.cpan.org/%7Ekthakore/>) and over the past few months  
>> we have rewritten the SDL_perl API. We have lots of fixes and new  
>> improvements.( http://www.cpantesters.org/show/SDL.html#SDL-2.511).  
>> The new APi has more docs, and developers working on it. It is a  
>> massive improvement and needs to be updated on Debian.
>>
>> In an attempt to release SDL_perl on Debian, we have also ported  
>> frozen-bubble to the new API. (http://github.com/kthakore/frozen-bubble 
>> ) , Which is now a beta on the official frozen bubble site (http://www.frozen-bubble.org/downloads/ 
>> ).
>>
>> The only other package in Debian that depends on SDL_perl is  
>> pangzero. We have started to port it too (http://github.com/kthakore/pangzero 
>> ). But because the project seems dead upstream (https://sourceforge.net/projects/pangzero/ 
>> ) I am having a hard time finding space in my schedule for it. We  
>> need help porting this. I will be around to answer any questions  
>> for the folks. Also the #sdl channel has many people who have help  
>> migrate frozen-bubble on there.
>>
>> Nevertheless this email is an attempt to get the process started to  
>> get SDL_perl 2.5* onto Debian and Ubuntu  as we have many games we  
>> want to release with the new API.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kartik Thakore
>>
>