Tk bug not fixed in CPAN

L

Larry

I experiencing a Tk bug, whereby starting another program would crash
my Tk program. I found a description of the bug here:
http://tinyurl.com/zbej3 and installed the patch it recommended
(http://m19s28.vlinux.de/estel/debian/perl-tk.deb), and it seems to
have worked.

My question is: why hasn't Tk been updated in CPAN to include this fix?
The bug description describes the severity as "Critical" (and rightly
so!), and the patch file is dated Jan. 2006. The Tk I used was just
installed from CPAN a few days ago.
 
L

Larry

Larry said:
I experiencing a Tk bug, whereby starting another program would crash
my Tk program. I found a description of the bug here:
http://tinyurl.com/zbej3 and installed the patch it recommended
(http://m19s28.vlinux.de/estel/debian/perl-tk.deb), and it seems to
have worked.

My question is: why hasn't Tk been updated in CPAN to include this fix?
The bug description describes the severity as "Critical" (and rightly
so!), and the patch file is dated Jan. 2006. The Tk I used was just
installed from CPAN a few days ago.

I just checked CPAN on the web and saw that Tk was last updated in
2004! (I hadn't noticed that during the installation, because I did it
from the CPAN command line). What's up with that?! Is Tk not being
used much these days?
 
L

Larry

Larry said:
I experiencing a Tk bug, whereby starting another program would crash
my Tk program. I found a description of the bug here:
http://tinyurl.com/zbej3 and installed the patch it recommended
(http://m19s28.vlinux.de/estel/debian/perl-tk.deb), and it seems to
have worked.

My question is: why hasn't Tk been updated in CPAN to include this fix?
The bug description describes the severity as "Critical" (and rightly
so!), and the patch file is dated Jan. 2006. The Tk I used was just
installed from CPAN a few days ago.

I just checked CPAN on the web and saw that Tk was last updated in
2004! (I hadn't noticed that during the installation, because I did it
from the CPAN command line). What's up with that?! Is Tk not being
used much these days?
 
Z

zentara

I experiencing a Tk bug, whereby starting another program would crash
my Tk program. I found a description of the bug here:
http://tinyurl.com/zbej3 and installed the patch it recommended
(http://m19s28.vlinux.de/estel/debian/perl-tk.deb), and it seems to
have worked.

My question is: why hasn't Tk been updated in CPAN to include this fix?
The bug description describes the severity as "Critical" (and rightly
so!), and the patch file is dated Jan. 2006. The Tk I used was just
installed from CPAN a few days ago.

Yeah, I notice the same thing. Nick will say he has made the changes
to his sources to reflect the bug-fix, but it is never updated in the
latest download.

Maybe you can re-post this question in comp.lang.perl.tk, where
Nick Ing-Simmons frequently responds.
 
L

Larry

zentara said:
Yeah, I notice the same thing. Nick will say he has made the changes
to his sources to reflect the bug-fix, but it is never updated in the
latest download.

Maybe you can re-post this question in comp.lang.perl.tk, where
Nick Ing-Simmons frequently responds.

I tried that, as well as sending an email directly to Nick. No
response.

Regardless of the bug, just the fact that a module as major as a Tk has
not been updated on CPAN since '04 is troubling. I would expect that
someone here would have something to say about this.
 
Z

zentara

I tried that, as well as sending an email directly to Nick. No
response.

Regardless of the bug, just the fact that a module as major as a Tk has
not been updated on CPAN since '04 is troubling. I would expect that
someone here would have something to say about this.

I agree. Maybe it's one of the reasons many are jumping to Gtk2.
 

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