I recently asked (as an Anonymous Monk) a question about Mac GUI options for Perl on OS/X, of which I recieved some great answers about CamelBones. Problem is though, CamelBones is against my culture -- I'm a vi man. :) Seriously, I don't like coding user interfaces using other user interfaces. I can't stand it.

So, "good news!" I said when I found these:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/27/ruby_pt3.html
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyTkOnOSX


Well, almost, it's Spiffy Tk in Aqua without a GUI (rock on!), but note that the language is Ruby. While Ruby is a fine language, I am in agreement with Larry and his State of the Onion talk ... popping out of the Perl box will make me explode, and I'd love to continue coding in Perl. Why? CPAN. CPAN is the nectar of the Gods. Well, that, and Larry is funnier than Matz.


The question is thus: What would it take to make Perl/Tk on my system work with this Aqua version of Tcl/Tk? All usenet and forum inquiries have fallen on deaf ears, or no one has tried, but ... here's the kicker ... no one has asked on PerlMonks yet. So there may be hope. Some poeple have posted about trying but have given up hope ... but again, no one has asked on PerlMonks.

If no one has managed to compile Perl/Tk for Tcl/Tk/Aqua, I'd like to try ... if we need to modify the build scripts that would be nice too, especially if the package maintainer could pick them up. ("Do you want to use your installed copy of Tcl/Tk/Aqua ??").

In reply to Aqua & Perl/Tk by SpanishInquisition

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