Tcl::Tk might - in your opinion - be a modernized perl/Tk, but it doesn't build on any platform, which makes it quite useless to start with.

I also browsed google to find if someone posted a fix for the failing prereq in Tk, but the suggested "tklib" is not available on my Linux distribution.

I must also add that Tk is very actively maintained by Slaven Rezić. At the moment I post this, the last commit was done on 2011-02-24 23:18:56, less than a week ago.

all those CPAN reports are bogus and useless - pick any of those:

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PROGRAM OUTPUT
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Output from '/usr/local/bin/perl5.13.10 Makefile.PL':

no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
    while executing
"load /usr/lib/libtk8.4.so.0 Tk"
    ("package ifneeded" script)
    invoked from within
"package require Tk"
    (file "test-for-tk.tcl" line 1)

Your Tcl installation (tclsh) fails to find Tk package.
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What use of smoke report without underlying library?

Also, Tcl::Tk, Tkx and Tcl CPAN packages have mailing list where you could have your questions answered.

perl/Tk development is something that is not very inspiring me - Slaven is doing number of efforts and this is certainly deserves much of a respect - but this is mostly wasted efforts, because most of this code is already available in tcl/tk itself.

okay, I think I should take more care of those bogus reports from testers

Right, so most smoke reports should skip it. But I know some cpansmokers use fake $DISPLAY's to have modules pass/fail. e.g. see my Tk::Clock based on Tk. (Feel free to steal from Makefile.PL).

Anyway, I tried to install all modules you mentioned. They all failed because of missing prereq's that are not mentioned in the docs. After I installed the missing tk packages (on OpenSUSE 11.3), I still got:

$ cpan Tcl::pTk Devel::tcltkdb
:
:
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /pro/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/after.t ..................... ok
:
t/fileevent.t ................. Can't locate sys/ioctl.ph in @INC (@IN
+C contains: /home/merijn/.cpan/build/Tcl-pTk-0.85-MFvlEW/blib/lib /ho
+me/merijn/.cpan/build/Tcl-pTk-0.85-MFvlEW/blib/arch /pro/lib/perl5/si
+te_perl/5.12.2/i686-linux-64int-ld /pro/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2 /p
+ro/lib/perl5/5.12.2/i686-linux-64int-ld /pro/lib/perl5/5.12.2 .) at /
+home/merijn/.cpan/build/Tcl-pTk-0.85-MFvlEW/blib/lib/Tcl/pTk/Widget.p
+m line 2144.
t/fileevent.t ................. Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0
+x200)
Failed 2/2 subtests
t/fileevent2.t ................ Can't locate sys/ioctl.ph in @INC (@IN
+C contains: /home/merijn/.cpan/build/Tcl-pTk-0.85-MFvlEW/blib/lib /ho
+me/merijn/.cpan/build/Tcl-pTk-0.85-MFvlEW/blib/arch /pro/lib/perl5/si
+te_perl/5.12.2/i686-linux-64int-ld /pro/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2 /p
+ro/lib/perl5/5.12.2/i686-linux-64int-ld /pro/lib/perl5/5.12.2 .) at /
+home/merijn/.cpan/build/Tcl-pTk-0.85-MFvlEW/blib/lib/Tcl/pTk/Widget.p
+m line 2144.
t/fileevent2.t ................ Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0
+x200)
Failed 1/1 subtests
:

Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /pro/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/after.t ....... ok
:
t/text.t ........ can't find package widget::scrolledwindow at /home/m
+erijn/.cpan/build/Tcl-Tk-1.04-Mr6h_N/blib/lib/Tcl/Tk.pm line 794.
t/text.t ........ Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 3/3 subtests
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But I'm not interested enough to dig any deeper.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn