[tex-live] TL 2009 : Problems with GUI (2008 re-visited ?)

[Norbert Preining]

On So, 11 Okt 2009, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> Is this not exactly what happened in TL 2008, and was
> there not some hope/expectation that these problems would not recur in TL 
> 2009 because by then a new version of PERL/TK would address these issues 

Neither Perl nor Perl/Tk has been updated since 2008, sorry. So yes, these
are the same bugs we had last year with Perl/Tk, and they are still
not resolved.

Wishing that someone jumps in and provides a nice perl plus perl/tk
plus sources plus distributability for TL2010.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining                                        Associate Professor
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Vienna University of Technology                               preining at logic.at
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