Perl/Tk

[Dave Horsfall]

I've got a sudden urge to add a graphical front-end to my myriad Perl 
scripts (puzzle solvers, crypto tools, device controllers, etc), and 
Perl/Tk seems to be just the thing; I've already bought the books :-)

However, it seems to be unsupported on the Mac, with comments like does 
not work with Quartz, needs obscure mods to the build process, etc; 
however, these comments date from almost the last century so I'm starting 
to doubt their veracity.

I know about Tkx, but it's largely unsupported and undocumented i.e. very 
much a work-in-progress, and I'd prefer to use something a little more 
mainstream in my stuff (especially since I've spent over $100 on the 
O'Reilly books!).

So, is anyone working on porting Perl/Tk to the Mac?  I was using it on my 
Penguin box with X11 forwarding over an SSH connection, but it's in 
mid-upgrade right now, and I'd prefer a native Mac implementation.

It seems odd to me that Perl/Tk exists for all platforms except the Mac; 
is Quartz really that hard to work with?  Heck, "wish" works OK...

-- Dave