Hello Perl Monks !!

I need a Perl/Tk module which works with different versions of perl. We use Perl/Tk to create many scripts in our organisation. But the problem that we found lately was that we have different perl versions at different site locations.

My observations so far:
1) Tried invoking perl v5.10.1 to use Perl/Tk module that used to work fine with perl v5.8.8. There was a symbol lookup error pointed. After checking the online stuff for similar errors, I learnt that I will need to change the perl module.

2) Installed Perl/Tk for perl v5.10.1. However, I landed up on similar error when tried using this newly downloaded Perl/Tk module with per v5.22.1. Also, I found that this newly downloaded Perl/Tk module for perl v5.10.1 is not working with perl v5.8.8

3) Installed Perl/Tk for perl v5.22.1. This time I landed up in issues when I used this newly dowloaded Perl/Tk module with perl v5.10.1 or perl v5.8.8. The error said somewhat like this "Can't load Tk.pm" which again appeared as version dependency of Perl/Tk as it worked well with perl version for which it was downloaded.

From above observations, one would assume that Perl/Tk module has a huge dependency on Perl versions. Everytime you upgrade your perl version, you need to also download a new compatible Perl/Tk module.

The support I seek here is to answer below questions:

Q-1) Is there any way that I can get a single Perl/Tk module which works for different Perl versions (or at least perl versions higher or same as perl v5.8.8)?

Q-2) If the answer to above question is "Not Possible!". Then is it really wise to use Perl/Tk module in the projects? I assume here that there will be many other users who might have faced this problem. But to my surprise I could not find any reasonable help online. Requesting all perlmonks to throw some light here.

Info that might be needed to refer:
=> OS used: Redhat Enterprise Linux Client (Release 6.7)
=> calling Tk module using "use Tk". The errors mentioned above are shown at this line.
=> Testing for a given Perl/Tk module with different perl version was done on different machines that has different perl versions installed
=> ______ - Let me know if any further info is needed.


Thanks a lot for your support !!

In reply to Perl/Tk Version Dependency Issue by rkabhi

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