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?
> 
> > 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..
> 
> My dream is that people realize 8.0 is 7 years old and used
> newer versions of Tcl.  However, if you wanted to support it,
> the only thing you need to fix is Tcl_GetString (that was
> added in 8.1, but is simply Tcl_GetStringFromObj(var, NULL))
> and Tcl_FindExecutable (that's 8.1+).

Supporting 8.0 is not necessity, but in case we'll drop it, we *must*
improve Makefile.PL to detect elder Tcl/Tk versions and refuse to go through
build and test, otherwise CPAN testers will send a bunch of FAILs.

My opinion is gaining compatibility is even easier that fixing Makefile.PL
properly 
:) :)

> I reference tclStringTypePtr (8.1+) and tclWideIntTypePtr (8.4+),
> but don't actually use them yet, so there is no issue there (they
> will be NULL).
> 
> All the object stuff is correct in 8.0.  I'm not using the Tcl
> unicode routines in Tcl.xs, so there's no issue there.
> 
> Tcl::Tk does have some Tk 8.4 references as well, but I don't
> think that's a big deal (for example, labelframe and panedwindow
> are both 8.4+ widgets, but if you don't use them, no problem).

This sounds very promising...

Best regards,
Vadim.