README for SDL_perl-1.14

What's New in 1.14

	o OO API works with new low-level API
	o Preliminary low level support for SDL_ttf and SDL_net
	o A semi-complete backwards compatability layer for SDL::sdlpl

What was New in 1.13
	o low-level api changes to better reflect SDL's API in perl
	o Joysticks supported 
	o more complete SDL Init/Quit subsystems support
	o Fewer mandatory library dependencies
	o automatic detection and configuration for optional libraries

Installation:

As root (or using sudo on the last step).

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make install

This should install it to your /usr/local/lib/perl5/ tree.
The perl script Makefile.PL will attempt to search for 
the standard place you may have installed SDL and its
supplemental libraries.  I promise I will eventually provide
user specified config options in the next release, promise.

Developer Documentation and Stuff:

Documentation is pretty sparse in this release, and that is
because I'm in the process of rewriting it.  As the documentation
project moves along, I hope to post the updates to the website

	http://www.sdlperl.org/docs/

Stay tuned for future documentation.

Contributing:

Anyone wishing to contribute modules, sprite engines, and anything
else that others might find useful, please email me at

	dave@cthulhu-burger.org

I am always more than happy to take patches, bug reports, and
helpful suggestions.  It is feedback, both good and poor, that
keeps projects like this going.

Enjoy,

David J. Goehrig	Sun Mar 10 2002