From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 87060 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2017 21:10:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 87029 invoked by uid 89); 8 Apr 2017 21:10:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=prerequisites, Hx-languages-length:843, shipping, late X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:10:30 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id v38LATYK013002 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2017 17:10:29 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (mta-68-175-148-36.twcny.rr.com [68.175.148.36] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id v38LASH4024960 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2017 17:10:29 -0400 Subject: Re: perl-5.24? To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <919f1d39-a69c-329f-d7bb-a58828a1fa2e@cornell.edu> <809dcad6-e168-ce2c-1576-fec00c72d6cd@cornell.edu> <87pogmalg7.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <4f3e185d-0274-8586-5019-9cb27a3dce01@cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 21:10:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87pogmalg7.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 On 4/8/2017 12:55 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> It looks like 5.26.0 is due to be released in a couple weeks. What >> are your plans for updating? Do you think it might happen in time for >> TeX Live 2017 (expected to be released in late May or early June)? If >> not, I'll probably have to temporarily go back to the old system of >> shipping biber as a packed Perl archive. > > Well, damn the torpedoes. I've uploaded a test version for Perl > 5.24.1. If you try it, please check if simply linking the 5.22 > directories under 5.24 works for you. If not, remove those links and > either build the distributions you need locally or let me know which > ones I should provide. Actually it was easier to just install the biber prerequisites using cpan. I build and tested biber, and it seems fine. Thanks. Ken