RE: Future of Perl/Tk?

> As much as I hate to ask, but has there been any discussion 
> on what will 
> happen with Perl/Tk now? It has been a long time since there 
> was a new 
> release, and there are quite a few bug reports in rt, and the various 
> Perl forums. Perhaps the source could be moved to sourceforge or a 
> similar repository to encourage community involvement.

I very agree with moving to central repository, with several committers.
Mailed patches to one person tend to lose.

Unfortunately "perltk" is created on SF by Bill Atkins, who is not responsible right now.



> 
> Meanwhile, and probably by no coincidence, there has been an 
> explosion 
> of growth with the various alternatives including not one, but two 
> possible ways of bridging to Tcl/Tk, which seem to produce decent 

IMO bridging to Tcl/Tk is the best, and perl/Tk will win with including Tcl interpreter.

Anyway central repository for perl/Tk is a must.


> results, but neither particularly interest me. Or rather, Wx, 
> Prima, Qt, 
> and GTk all interest me more.

What a tendency is - when speaking of Tk people often speculate "Gtk is even better"?

Gtk is impossible on WinCE, and, in my taste, isn't look-n-feeling good, although have better l8n

Vadim.
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