Best Wishes

2004-01-15 Thread david goehrig
Hey Everybody! I'm rather impressed that there's a website up and a mailing list and everything. I am not yet back among the living (I'm stranded in Limbo) and visiting friends in NYC (going to linux world too). But this very cool! I'm glad to hear there is some progress being made. When I r

RE: Configuration-Aware Tests

2004-01-16 Thread david goehrig
--- Patrick A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just two cents, but David mentioned uploading > sdlperl2.0 once he was back in > civilization. By all means do not let my 2.0 statement stop the Config work, I have absolutely no problem with that, and the 2.0 stuff (while there are some config improvem

prerequisite insanity

2004-02-05 Thread david goehrig
Ok, Now I'm going through the build system changes and I can't build a damn thing on a fresh fedora install because the new build stuff requires a metric boatload of cpan. my dev box, for reasons too complex to get into has no net connection, and solving these dependencies by hand has already ta

released 2.0.5

2004-02-06 Thread david goehrig
First off thanks to all those that have contributed, this is getting really impressive. In the next couple of hours 2.0.5 will be floating around the cpan mirrors, it has the Tels inspired scalar refs implemented throughout, chromatic's new build system and tutorials, and a number of functions tha

urls, cpan, and suckage

2004-02-07 Thread david goehrig
http://backpan.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DG/DGOEHRIG/ 2.0.5 is there, have not been able to post the patches, keep being rejected because of mydoom filters. Also, I'm having a terrible time getting the damn thing indexed, because wayne has permissions on half the modles. Wayne are you here? If some

frozen bubble patches

2004-02-09 Thread david goehrig
attaced is a tarball containing most of the patches needed to get fb fully working with 2.0.5 I have also begun serious work for the next minor release that adds improved SMPEG support, tighter integration with SDL_mixer, and if I get the time, a sprite library or two. I'm working on a general i

Re: frozen bubble patches

2004-02-10 Thread david goehrig
doh! --- John Beppu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ date ] 2004/02/09 | Monday | 09:18 AM > [ author ] david goehrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > attaced is a tarball containing most of the > patches > > needed to get fb fully working with 2.0.5 >

Re change to SDL::Surface

2004-02-13 Thread david goehrig
In the 2.0.5 branch there is a method SDL::Surface::rect ([x,y]) which retuns a SDL::Rect with the given x,y (0,0) if not specified. usage my $app = new SDL::App; my $image = new SDL::Surface -name => 'player.png'; $image->blit(0,$app,$image->rect(10,20)); Usually I subclass Surface into Spr

Re: SDL_Perl v2.0.5 problems

2004-02-21 Thread david goehrig
> What is not the official SDL perl > release/repository? CPAN is going to be the release repository. Andreas finally fixed the permissions and I can finally submit distributions again. > Is David just using sdl.perl.org? I am in full support of using sdl.perl.org and I'd recommend we get a wik

Re: SDL 2.0.5 fails build on Fedora Core 1

2004-02-21 Thread david goehrig
--- "Scott R. Godin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also CPAN thinks it's version 2.0 not 2.0.5 yeah CPAN has a lot of screwy ideas. There were problems with the distribution import and so the metadata got kinda screwy As for the install failure, it looks like it is that the test is failing

Making Changes

2004-02-23 Thread david goehrig
--- John Beppu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, you don't have to chronicle your every > little move. For example, if you need to reformat > a few lines of code here and there > or add a few comments, just do it. > > Use your judgement to determine what's noteworthy > and what's not. I just

OpenGL fixed, new release soon

2004-02-23 Thread david goehrig
I just figured out what changed and broke the OpenGL stuff, it was a bootsrap code change. Previous versions automatically loaded the OpenGL.so if you had it, regardless of if you need it. In fixing that the export of the functions into the main namespace by including SDL::OpenGL failed, because i

Opinions on subversion

2004-09-23 Thread David Goehrig
Any and all, I'm going over the diff between the 2.1.0 branch and the version in svn.perl.org, and there are currently 8759 lines different, many of which are due to the new style pointer wrapping over the old 1.2.x hash wrapping. As such I'm going through the svn change log, looking for things t

New testing tarball available on SF.net

2004-09-23 Thread David Goehrig
Hey all, I've uploaded the lastest buildable revision 2.1.1 to http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdlpl/ You can download the tarball there. I haven't yet integrated the build changes to this version, this has only the feature improvement / bug fixes patched. Build system bug fixes comming RSN.

Re: can't built the latest snapshot

2004-11-24 Thread David Goehrig
I'm not wrapping anything up for any particular platform any time soon. What is in SVN is the latest and greatest, and may be what is in CPAN I don't remember. If someone wants to package it for various platforms, be my guest. But since most people package the earlier branch that works with Froze

Re: svn access

2004-11-24 Thread David Goehrig
k for write access to the respository. The code is accessible through the web. Dave On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:09:21 -0600, Andy Bakun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:01, David Goehrig wrote: > > I'm not wrapping anything up for any particular platform any t

Re: can't built the latest snapshot

2004-11-25 Thread David Goehrig
Guillaume, You should not apologize, as you're responsible for acceptance in the first place. Great to hear you've got the networking going. Thanks for a great game, Dave On 25 Nov 2004 11:43:15 +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Goehrig writes

Re: I'm still can't build the snapshot (trunk)

2004-11-26 Thread David Goehrig
type sdl-config --libs you should get back a listing like: -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread What the error message says is quite clear, it can't find SDL and it is first checking /usr/local/lib, and then looking in /usr/lib. If you have installed SDL in /usr/local/lib, you may ha

Minor patch release

2005-10-05 Thread David Goehrig
I just uploaded a minor patch release that corrects some bugs with the build process. SDL_perl-2.1.3 should be hitting the CPAN mirrors soon. Dave -- "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle" -Stapp's Ironical Paradox

Re: How to use glProject without glGet?

2005-10-11 Thread David Goehrig
On 10/11/05, Andreas Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello again :-) Hi But when I try to fetch this info with glGet, it appears there is no such > subroutine... is there some fancy trick I have overlooked, or is this a > known problem with sdlperl? > > In sdl-perl-2.1.3 (and some earlier

Coming attractions

2005-10-12 Thread David Goehrig
Well I've spent too many of the past 48 trying to get SDL Perl up an running on my PowerBook. I will totally admit SDL Perl was truly broken on the Mac platform. What this effort has resulted in though, is something rather different. I'm a few hours away from putting together an SDL Perl.app bundle

Re: OpenGL Secrets

2005-11-17 Thread David Goehrig
Well there is already an OpenGL and GLUT module in CPAN that is entirely independent of the on in SDL_Perl. The reason I did this version was because the other is a more or less strict interpretation of the C API, and I wanted something simpler that more cleanly integrated with perl's programming

Re: Branches, Patches and Bugs, was Re: SDL_Perl-2.1.3 Build.PL bug

2006-03-01 Thread David Goehrig
RT bugs go to me anyways :) I am swampped with work. Please be patient, I'll get to it eventually. Dave On 3/1/06, Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moin, > > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:19, chromatic wrote: > > On Monday 20 February 2006 11:27, Chris Hinrichs wrote: > > (That reminds me, we

Re: Branches, Patches and Bugs, was Re: SDL_Perl-2.1.3 Build.PL bug

2006-03-01 Thread David Goehrig
Ok, I took a few minutes out to change the configuration of my webserver and added a new repository, uploaded my current working code, and set the SVN repository up. http://nexttolast.com/sdlperl Anyone can make changes, but when you do please send me an email telling me what you did. If I do a

Re: Branches, Patches and Bugs

2006-03-05 Thread David Goehrig
Tels when you checkout of the repository you create your own Local branch. When you've finished testing and verified that your code is right, check it in to the main tree. When a release is made, for sanity sake, I will import the release as another branch. All development should happen in the ma

Re: CREDITS and (C) notices

2006-03-05 Thread David Goehrig
The Credits can be extracted from the Changelog file. The copyright notices were standardized upon the request of the people who run savanna.gnu.org which I was at one point applying for a repository. They were changed to meet the requirements of both the LGPL and legal requirements. Please do

Re: Branches, Patches and Bugs

2006-03-05 Thread David Goehrig
The version number scheme is simple and will remain the same. major.minor.patch Major releases changes break everything... 1 -> 2 changed how everything worked internally and that broke a lot of code that poked around inside the internals of things. Minor releases happen when API changes are mad

About merging branches

2006-03-05 Thread David Goehrig
About merging branches. I want to point out that most of the branches are incompatible with the current version of SDL perl internally. The SDL_perl-2.2.0 release which is in SVN right now is based on the major rewrite were we moved to blessed scalars for the entire OO layer, and made lots of int

Re: Branches, Patches and Bugs

2006-03-06 Thread David Goehrig
On 3/6/06, Pip Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > use even minor versions to suggest stability and odd > to imply unstable / experimental development branches. All releases are supposed to be "stable" until proven otherwise :) SVN is "unstable" and CPAN is "stable". You want to be bleeding edge

Re: this ML still being used?

2007-03-05 Thread David Goehrig
Hey all, I'm around but busy as usual. Subversion is still up at http://nexttolast.com/sdlperl And always collecting submissions. Sorry I haven't been pushing out much code, but life keeps getting in the way :) Dave

New SDL Perl in Subversion

2007-03-12 Thread David Goehrig
Everybody, I just went through the build process on Mac OS X and Debian, and fixed up a few bugs that were created as a result of a change in Module::Build that I've been too lazy to correct, and a few other bugs that cropped up as part of getting the SDLPerl.app bundle working under MacOS X.

Re: New SDL Perl in Subversion

2007-03-14 Thread David Goehrig
not the test is broken, and not the underlying code), I'm in no rush to fix them. Volunteers are more than welcome to take on that task. Thanks for the report Dave John Gabriele wrote: On 3/11/07, David Goehrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Everybody, I just went through the buil

Re: Trouble with SDL-Perl 2.1.3 Build process

2007-06-02 Thread David Goehrig
Rich Could you send me a list of your OS, the full error message text, and the locations you've installed all the libs `locate SDL`? It looks like it is failing to initialize the list of directories for the various libraries on your system. Dave Turd Turtle wrote: Hi there, I am havin

Re: More Updates

2009-08-03 Thread David Goehrig
I'll pull review and merge. Dave -=-=- d...@nexttolast.com -=-=- On Aug 2, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Kartik Thakore wrote: Now SDL_perl has support for OpenGL gluquadric* stuff. an example is made available from NeHe lesson 18. (GL_SMOOTH doesn't seem to work) The file is in test/OpenGL/tutoria

Its that time of year again!

2009-08-04 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

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: Version 3.0 ideas

2009-08-06 Thread David Goehrig
Just a historical FYI. I did a version of the thunk based calls for Sdl Perl in around 2k2 and it works ok. The real issue is not the several C ABI variants that need to be supported (6 main ones with slight variants) the problem is Making some of the calls "perlly". So if we are ambitious

Re: Potential windows Mingw Fix

2009-08-10 Thread David Goehrig
As soon as we have a decent build system back in place for win32/64, let's assume 2.3 will move on to a new build scheme. So basically we fix this and I'll push to cpan and we move on. Curtis if you have a few minutes could you send me a quick description of your setup. My windows box is cu

Re: HELP:Constants.pm breaks frozenbubble

2009-08-17 Thread David Goehrig
The "black magic" is perl5 typeglob programming 101. GV in the perl internals pods. As for the behavior change there was a reason. But I don't remember what it was. :) I will take a look when my kid is asleep. Dave -=-=- d...@nexttolast.com -=-=- On Aug 17, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Kartik Thakore

Re: SDL XS fixes

2009-08-29 Thread David Goehrig
The answer is use DESTROY. And there was at one point a SDL::free method, but who knows if is still around. Best advice on mem leaks is stop doing that. And by that I mean what your doing. You should never assume that it is safe to free anything when dealing with complex systems. Typicall

Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

2009-08-31 Thread David Goehrig
Ages ago all of the xs code was broken out into separated files. We switched over to a monolithic build with conditional compilation due to the problems of maintaining coherency in the face of nested dependencies. One of the things the old build scripts did that the new pseudo-cpan- friend

Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

2009-08-31 Thread David Goehrig
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Kartik Thakore wrote: > What if this was fixed with Alien::SDL as it is doing for windows now? Kmx > is also working on strawberry compatible makefiles. This way we can compile > for most platforms from scratch. The problem is as Andreas originally pointed out th

Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

2009-08-31 Thread David Goehrig
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Kartik Thakore wrote: > > But it does solve dev env setup for the developer. Not really, it partially solves the configuration/detection problem but still fails the "what the dev really needs" test. If I'm writing software that I want to distribute, then I need a

Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

2009-09-01 Thread David Goehrig
mmon across all large middleware platforms. The model to think of is games that require the latest directx and require you install that. Dave -=-=- d...@nexttolast.com -=-=- On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote: 2009/9/1 David Goehrig : What if this was fixed with Alien::SDL

Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

2009-09-01 Thread David Goehrig
-=-=- d...@nexttolast.com -=-=- On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: or urpmi :) I know, I know, mandriva is just not hype anymore.. Was it ever :) Thanks. Well, I can't remember how I first tried sdl-perl. I surely don't like/use cpan a lot, so I am not sure if i

Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

2009-09-01 Thread David Goehrig
-=-=- d...@nexttolast.com -=-=- On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Kartik Thakore wrote: If you remember or can find them some of the bugs. Can you post them onto RT? If Guillaume can remember a single bug from those days without looking it up I'll buy him a beer next time I'm on the Contin

Re: Building on Win32 - the real problem

2009-09-01 Thread David Goehrig
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Adam Kennedy wrote: > This is where I see the SDL CPAN package. You develop initially on the > CPAN version, then do packaging and testing targeting the > installed/packaged/bundled/all-in-one version. I think this is where we're getting messed up I don't thin