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Re: [ITP] perl-Tk


Yaakov S said:
Note that Perl/Tk is a Tk *implementation*, and does not depend on tcltk.
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ldesc: "Complete Perl interface for Tk, built against Cygwin/X."
Well that ldesc is confusing considering that.

I think some of the confusion stems from the fact that tk is too closely associtated with tcl.
Tk is a toolkit. Toolkits are usually implemented in shared libraries, and IFAIK Tk is no exception.
The FAQ for Perl/TK implies that the toolkit code is very similar between both tcl's TK and this implementation.


If that is the case there should really be three packages upstream.
tk - contains the library (maintained by tcl people)
tcltk - tcl interface to the tk library (maintained by tcl people)
Perl/Tk - perl interface to tk lib. (maintained by Perl/Tk people)

Some reasonable set of packages should be available in Cygwin.


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