The problem with such a thing would not be that it can only offer a lowest common denominator of widgets (it can offer more), but that it can only offer the lowest common denominator of the APIs. The event models in particular would probably be very hard to integrate behind a single consistent interface if that interface is to be at all powerful.

If you drop Tk from the mix, then it might just be doable though. GTK, Qt and Win32/GDI are similar enough that it shouldn't be too hard to offer a wrapper. On the other hand, wxWindows already does that for Motif, GTK and Win32/GDI on a lower level.

On Windows, a binary PPM of WxPerl and PAR should make end-user ready distribution easy. On Unix, pretty much everyone who is running a GUI has a compiler as well anyway.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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