Brian Raven <> wrote:
> Bill Luebkert <> wrote:
> > Chris Prather <> wrote:
> >> Don Dukelow <> wrote:
> >>> Anyone know why they took TK out of Perl 10?
> >>
> >> Assuming you mean Perl5 version 10 ... it was never in Perl5. At
> >> least not according to Module::CoreList.
> >>
> >> It's still on cpan http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tk/ though.
> >
> > Try reading this:
> > http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/perl-tk-v5-10-0
>
> I didn't see mentioned there the main reason that Perl/Tk is no longer
> maintained, and that is due to the passing of its primary developer
> and maintainer in 2006.
>
> http://news.perlfoundation.org/2006/09/thanks_nick.html
>
> Personally, I am still writing Tk scripts, mainly as I haven't worked
> out how to use Tkx effectively yet.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Brian Raven

Brian, thank you so much for passing this on. I know that I tune
in and out of Perl message threads, but I had missed seeing that
Nick Ing-Simmons had died. Nick was a tremendous contributor to
the Perl community. I use his Perl/Tk module all the time. I will
definitely miss him.

--
Mike Arms

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