On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:40:28PM -0600, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > At the risk of incurring Corinna's wrath, I second the request. I'd like > > to see someone submit an X-less perl-Tk package too, with support in both > > for alternatives. > > Here are the issues: > > 1) Two ports of perl-Tk, one X11 and one Win32, *will* collide with each > other, and may lead to more confusion from the end users.
Hence the suggestion of using the features provided by the alternatives package. Am I correct in assuming this works even for dynamically loaded dlls? > 2) Since 804.xxx, the Win32 build has been broken on Cygwin, whereas the > X11 build works with a minor patch (to fix an assumption that Cygwin is > using Win32). I've found Nick Ing-Simmons to be helpful before; has anyone actually let him know there's a problem? > 3) The fact that tcltk is Win32 (as stated numerous times in the past, > the reason being to support insight) does not mean that perl-Tk need be > Win32 as well. > > 4) Even regarding tcltk, there's been discussion recently on finding a > way to make the primary installation Unix/X11 and a secondary Win32 > version for insight. > > Considering all the above, I found it most feasible to package *one* > perl-Tk, based on X11, and I have yet to see a convicing argument otherwise. I wasn't trying to volunteer you to produce a non-X11 package; I just would like to have it be possible to create one later. When I get a few other things finished I make take a stab at it myself.
