Wait, what is the problem? Won't run how, it exists without error? It hangs without showing anything? It dies?

I doubt that combining the widgets is any kind of solution :/

What kind of problem are you trying to debug with the debugger (if you couldn't tell, i'm from the "debugging with Print" school) ?

Hmm, why are you including python in the tree? Python/Tk and Perl/Tk, one Tk too many :)

Ouch, and an included perl-5.8? I thought you wanted to support unicode :)

You should check out http://www.cava.co.uk/ and http://www.cava.co.uk/citrusperl/ , and consider packaging things as if for CPAN (Makefile.PL etc... )