thanks for refering to tk-zinc, i have installed it today using the ppm from:http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppmdir.html
for perl 5.10, yes it is beautiful, i have tried successfully the good tutorials from zentara: http://zentara.net/zinc/
i will send a letter to bribes.org to make sdl-perl ppm for perl 5.10, they have on their site a ppm for 5.58
best regards