As far as I know perl/Tk will be updated soon to support Unicode in perl-5.8.x
But this is entirely different approach.
Normally you do not need Tcl::Tk when you are satisfied with perlTk, but here are cases when I use it and advice it to use for others:
- sometimes Perl somes without perl/Tk (Linux, FreeBSD and probably other distribution do not have it unless you managed to build perlTk) and compiling perlTk is much more consuming task than Tcl::Tk, because usually Tcl/Tk already exist in system and Tcl::Tk as a glue is really lightweight
Being lightweight, it is much easier to port it to another OS, and, as a bright example, currently Tcl::Tk is the only way to get GUI for perl-5.8.x on WinCE, yet the only way to get Unicode-aware GUI for perl-x.x.x on WinCE.
(OT: FreeBSD has rather old Perl and rather new Tcl/Tk after installing of OS. Why?)
- You need some feature that exists in Tcl/Tk but not available in perlTk. Mostly these are Unicode and large set of widgets available in Tcl/Tk.
- Not only widgets, but some parts of ready-to-use Tcl/Tk code could be used from Perl, as long as perl has full access to all widgets created in Tcl/Tk.
(I use this approach quite often)
- Elder perls could have Unicode-enabled GUI this way.
(I'm still using perl-5.6.1 and really will migrate to perl-5.8.1 soon, but until that I have ability to create Unicode-aware GUI)
Also, Tcl/Tk is updated more frequently than perlTk do.
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OT: FreeBSD has rather old Perl and rather new Tcl/Tk after installing of OS. Why?
What do you mean? FreeBSD's core containts rather old Perl but you are welcome to install latest Perl from ports collection. On the other hand Tcl/Tk is available from ports collection only.
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Indeed.
And thanks for pointing this: I asked several times this question and got an answer now.
I do not know much of FreeBSD, I just installed it to test a module, and after installation found rather old perl, and was surprised by this a bit.
Now I see both 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 in /usr/ports/INDEX file
However, am I right that after installation of newer perl from ports collection do not overwrite elder perl?
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