Re: Retiring this list

Norbert Preining <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:34:39 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.tk
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Do, 20 Feb 2014, Richie wrote:
>> The list has been very quiet, maybe even dead. However Perl/Tk is  
>> still alive with ongoing development on Cpan.

Agreed, Tk is quite recent on CTAN, compared to Tkx

> Some of us missed the Tkx wagon

I don't see much to be missed here - having the need to have
Tcl/Tk installed on all deployment machines is not really a big plus.

I am using Perl/TK for the GUI of the TeX Live Manager and I don't
see how I can reasonably get Tcl/TK also installed on 15+ supported
platforms/arch combinations.

Norbert

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