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Re: [ITP] perl-Tk
- From: "Tacvek" <unknown_kev_cat at hotmail dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:43:01 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ITP] perl-Tk
- References: <437D3BA3.5000809@users.sourceforge.net>
Yaakov S said:
Note that Perl/Tk is a Tk *implementation*, and does not depend on tcltk.
..
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.