I posted a related inquiry to [EMAIL PROTECTED], where Jim Ingham (the TclTkAqua developer) saw it. He responded:
JI> You should probably ask this question on the PerlTk newsgroup. JI> JI> Last time I heard, folks there were working on a version of PerlTk JI> that would use Tk 8.4.x, but very slowly, as it seemed. The first JI> AquaTk port was 8.4.0, so this is the first requirement. After that, JI> somebody is going to have to do whatever magic they do to the Tk JI> sources to munge them into PerlTk sources for the AquaTk port sources JI> as well as the Windows & Unix ones. I have had a few preliminary JI> pings about this, but not in the past 6 months or so.
The Perl/Tk versions I've seen for OSX are called "Tk800.024" and "Tk804.0_24":
Tk800.024 is based on "Tk 8.0.5". It is listed as the "latest release" on the CPAN. It installs and works OK with Perl 5.6.0 (as shipped by Apple).
Tk804.0_24 is based on Tk 8.4a2. It is listed as a "developer release" on the CPAN. It requires Perl 5.8.0, so I haven't tried it. (See http://cfcl/rdm/section7/perltk.html for details.)
So, it sounds like a couple of issues need to be resolved. First, there needs to be a production release of Perl/Tk, based on Tk 8.4.x. Then, there would have to be a variant of this which took AquaTk's changes into account.
I have no way of knowing, but my guess is that this isn't imminent.
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