How do I best handle a needed patch for Perl/Tk?

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Published on 2010-05-21T19:03:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 15:20 UTC
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I am making a change to Perl/Tk for an application that has its own resident Perl and modules installation (so we can drop the app in and go).

I've found a problem I am experiencing that I just stumbled on what seems to be the patch I need here: http://osdir.com/ml/lang.perl.tk/2004-10/msg00030.html


    Bug confirmed. Here's the patch against Tk804.027:


--- Tk-804.027/pTk/mTk/generic/tkEntry.c Sat Mar 20 19:54:48 2004
+++ Tk-804.027-perl5.8.3d/pTk/mTk/generic/tkEntry.c Tue Oct 19 22:50:31 2004
@@ -3478,6 +3478,18 @@
Tcl_DStringFree(&script);
#else

+ switch (type) {
+ case VALIDATE_INSERT:
+ type = 1;
+ break;
+ case VALIDATE_DELETE:
+ type = 0;
+ break;
+ default:
+ type = -1;
+ break;
+ }
+
code = LangDoCallback(entryPtr->interp, entryPtr->validateCmd, 1, 5, "%s
%s %s %d %d",
new, change, entryPtr->string, index, type);
if (code != TCL_OK && code != TCL_RETURN) {


Regards,
Slaven

I'd like to apply this patch or if there is a newer version of the Perl/Tk module I can upgrade to that includes this patch already that doesn't require I change the version of Perl, do that.

Here is what I can find from the installation for this app:

perl -v = 5.8.4 $Tk::version = '8.4' $Tk::patchlevel = '8.4' $Tk::VERSION = '804.027'

So..

1a) if there is a newer Tk VERSION that includes the patch in the link above, how do I upgrade just that module in the specific Perl installation location for this app?

1b) how do I know if that upgrade is compatible with 5.8.4 of Perl (I don't want to upgrade perl at this point)

2) if not, how do I apply that patch defined in that link?

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