RE: [tcltk-perl] What version of perl is required?

[Konovalov, V. <vko...@sp...>]

> Related question is what versions of 'tcl' is the Tcl.pm supposed to
> be compatible with?

Ohhhh.... Tricky question...

At first, when Malcolm Beattie, famous perl pumpking released module, only
old Tcl/Tk existed, and nowadays module  crashed when newer Tcl/Tk was used.
RTFS-ing proved a necessity to call Tcl_FindExecutable in this case, so I
added this, and both old and new versions were supported.

Nowadays Tcl/Tk moved to "Object" system and looks like we're losing elder
Tcl/Tk, and at least 0.72 supported both old and new Tcl/Tk.
(worked perl-581+Tcl/Tk-800, and perl-5.005_03+Tcl/Tk-8.4-Unicodish)

It appears that CPAN testers use old Tcl/Tk and *will* report FAILs in case
their version is very old.

In case support for old Tcl/Tk will be dropped, we must include proper check
in Makefile.PL, for people not even trying testing in this case.

My dream is to have something like Tcl.xs and Tcl800.xs, and Tcl800.xs could
just contain old non-Unicodish non-tcl-Object, just to have working bridge
even for such cases..

Best regards,
Vadim.