Hi Christofer, > I often have multiple Tcl/Tk installations on a system for testing purposes, > and quite a few times I have accidentally specified --tclsh for the wrong > Tcl/Tk installation to Tcl::pTk, rather than whichever one Tcl.pm is currently > using. > > I wonder if this could be prevented: when installing Tcl.pm dependents > (Tcl::pTk, Tcl::Tk, etc.), why not have them go through Tcl.pm to check for > Tcl/Tk versions and extensions, rather than relying on a possibly-incorrect > path to tclsh?
I think your idea is reasonable, yes > Would it be okay for Tcl.pm dependents to `require Tcl` from > inside Makefile.PL (only when the --test-for-tk check is requested), or is it > considered universally "bad" for Makefile.PL files to try using dependencies > this way? Was there a reason this approach was not used in the first place? I think this was an overlook.
