23. What is the history of pTk and perl/Tk?
This list is only slowly coming together. Please forgive any absences.
- tkperl5a5 is 
 announced Thu, 20 Oct 1994 14:44:23 +0000 (BST)
NOTE
This project is unrelated to the one which is adding usersubs to
perl4 to get access to Tk via Tcl. Often, postings on comp.lang.perl
just say "tkperl" without saying which one is meant. They are two
totally different kettles of fish.
--Malcolm (Beattie)
- Fri, 25 Nov 94 14:29:53 GMT Nick Ing-Simmons is 
 working on what will be known as "nTk" eventually.
- Mon, 12 Dec 94 08:56:36 GMT, Nick Ing-Simmons 
reports:
I have a re-port of ext/Tk nearly ready for alpha.
It builds its own "pTk" library from sources semi-automatically derived
from Tk3.6.  There is no Tcl library at all. 
Would anyone like to assist me in testing it?
- nTk-a2 
 announced Fri, 16 Dec 1994 10:59:36 -0500
- nTk-a3 
 announced Mon, 19 Dec 1994 18:03:27 -0500
- nTk-a5 
 announced Fri, 23 Dec 1994 10:18:16 -0500 (last to use Tk 3.6 ?)
- nTk-a6 first to use Tk 4.0 (?)
- nTk-a7 
 announced Fri, 13 Jan 1995 10:55:27 -0500
- nTk-a8 
 has appeared before Tue, 17 Jan 95 09:04:33 GMT
- nTk-a9 
 has appeared before Wed, 18 Jan 95 19:25:10 GMT
- nTk-a10 
 announced Tue, 24 Jan 1995 14:32:02 -0500
- nTk-a11 
 announced Tue, 31 Jan 95 19:05:32 GMT
- Malcolm Beattie 
 suggests the nTk -> Tk name change, Larry Wall 
 concurs
- nTk-a12 
 announced Thu, 16 Feb 1995 09:12:26 -0500
-  Nick Ing-Simmons 
calls for a new mail list Thu, 16 Feb 95 14:13:55 GMT
- Tk-a13 
 announced Wed, 1 Mar 1995 11:38:15 -0500 (Name has changed from "nTk")
- Tk-b1 
 announced Tue, 14 Mar 95 16:58:40 GMT
- Tk-b2 
 announced Wed, 29 Mar 95 15:52:44 BST
- Tk-b3 
 announced Fri, 31 Mar 95 16:54:54 BST
- Tk-b4 
 announced Fri, 12 May 1995 11:45:32 -0400 EST
- Tk-b5 
 announced Mon, 26 Jun 95 17:14:06 BST
- Tk-b6 
 announced Fri, 21 Jul 95 15:42:35 BST
- Tk-b7 
 announced Fri, 28 Jul 95 15:16:02 BST
- Tk-b8 
 announced Wed, 16 Aug 95 12:34:05 BST
- an RFD
 (Request For Discussion) for a new usenet group 
 comp.lang.perl.tk is circulated
 by Jon Orwant Fri, 4 Aug 1995 08:29:46 -0400
- unmoderated newsgroup comp.lang.perl.tk 
passes by a vote of 352 to 18 with 1 abstention in an 
announcement made Mon, 9 Oct 1995 10:13:17 -0400 (EDT).
The new group makes its appearance at news-servers roughly 
18 October 1995.
- Tk-b9.01 
 announced Wed, 20 Dec 95 10:06:47 GMT.
- Tk-b10 announced Sat, 23 Mar 96 17:16:27 GMT.
- Tk-b11 announced Mon, 1 Apr 96 16:44:48 GMT.
- Tk-b11.01 announced Wed, 3 Apr 96 17:48:09 GMT.
- Tk-b11.02 announced 10 Apr 96 12:52:28 GMT.
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