perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

[Ken Brown]

On 5/25/2015 9:12 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/25/2015 3:00 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> I don't know if it's still possible to build on 5.22, depending on where
>> in the deprecation cycle we are with that function.  But the earlier
>> module versions have been pulled from CPAN anyway and only 1.18 is
>> available.  If it's just "too slow", then why do the Biber folks care?
>
> I don't know.  I'm about to go on vacation, so I'll worry about this
> when I get back.  It's not relevant to the transition to perl-5.22.0.
> My plan for the transition is to build biber-1.8 (x86_64 only for now),
> assuming it builds and tests OK once I have perl-XML-Writer.

biber-1.8 seems fine with perl-5.22.0.  Since I may be out of town with 
poor internet access when you're ready for the transition, I went ahead 
and uploaded it to sourceware (x86_64 only), along with a new release of 
texlive-collection-bibtexextra [*].  At transition time, someone just 
has to put !ready in my x86_64 upload area.

Ken

[*] The update from biber-1.5 to biber-1.8 requires a corresponding 
update of biblatex.