Anyone know why they took TK out of Perl 10?
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Dukelow, Don
> Anyone know why they took TK out of Perl 10?
Assuming you mean Perl5 version 10 ... it was never in Perl5. At least
not according to Module::CoreList.
It's still on cpan http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tk/ though.
-Chris
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Chris Prather wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Dukelow, Don
>> Anyone know why they took TK out of Perl 10?
>
> Assuming you mean Perl5 version 10 ... it was never in Perl5. At least
> not according to Module::CoreList.
>
> It's still on cpan http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tk/ though.
Try reading this:
http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/perl-tk-v5-10-0
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Bill Luebkert <> wrote:
> Chris Prather wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Dukelow, Don
>>> Anyone know why they took TK out of Perl 10?
>>
>> Assuming you mean Perl5 version 10 ... it was never in Perl5. At
>> least not according to Module::CoreList.
>>
>> It's still on cpan http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tk/ though.
>
> Try reading this:
> http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/perl-tk-v5-10-0
I didn't see mentioned there the main reason that Perl/Tk is no longer
maintained, and that is due to the passing of its primary developer and
maintainer in 2006.
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/09/thanks_nick.html
Personally, I am still writing Tk scripts, mainly as I haven't worked
out how to use Tkx effectively yet.
HTH
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Brian Raven wrote:
> I didn't see mentioned there the main reason that Perl/Tk is no longer
> maintained, and that is due to the passing of its primary developer and
> maintainer in 2006.
>
> http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/09/thanks_nick.html
>
> Personally, I am still writing Tk scripts, mainly as I haven't worked
> out how to use Tkx effectively yet.
>
According to RT there are still 8 maintainers. Have they all given up?
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Tk
Lyle
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Brian Raven <> wrote:
> Bill Luebkert <> wrote:
> > Chris Prather <> wrote:
> >> Don Dukelow <> wrote:
> >>> Anyone know why they took TK out of Perl 10?
> >>
> >> Assuming you mean Perl5 version 10 ... it was never in Perl5. At
> >> least not according to Module::CoreList.
> >>
> >> It's still on cpan http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tk/ though.
> >
> > Try reading this:
> > http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/perl-tk-v5-10-0
>
> I didn't see mentioned there the main reason that Perl/Tk is no longer
> maintained, and that is due to the passing of its primary developer
> and maintainer in 2006.
>
> http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/09/thanks_nick.html
>
> Personally, I am still writing Tk scripts, mainly as I haven't worked
> out how to use Tkx effectively yet.
>
> HTH
>
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> Brian Raven
Brian, thank you so much for passing this on. I know that I tune
in and out of Perl message threads, but I had missed seeing that
Nick Ing-Simmons had died. Nick was a tremendous contributor to
the Perl community. I use his Perl/Tk module all the time. I will
definitely miss him.
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Mike Arms
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Lyle wrote:
> Brian Raven wrote:
> > I didn't see mentioned there the main reason that Perl/Tk is no
> > longer maintained, and that is due to the passing of its primary
> > developer and maintainer in 2006.
> >
> > http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/09/thanks_nick.html
> >
> > Personally, I am still writing Tk scripts, mainly as I haven't
> > worked out how to use Tkx effectively yet.
> >
>
> According to RT there are still 8 maintainers. Have they all given up?
> http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Tk
No, they haven't all given up, but it seems highly unlikely that Perl/Tk
will ever be upgraded to a Tcl/Tk version beyond 8.4.5 because the only
person who has ever done it is no longer around, and this is a quite
complicated task.
You may also want to take a look at this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.tk/browse_thre ad/thread/5b46aee9cb6bbe12/9e8e7b52574df467?#9e8e7b52574df46 7
Cheers,
-Jan
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