Plans for Perl 5.22

Plans for Perl 5.22

[Ken Brown]

Hi Achim,

I'm wondering what your plans are for Perl 5.22, which I think is due to 
be released in a couple weeks.  I'm expecting to release TeX Live 2015 
in mid June, and it would be nice to be able to update Biber to the 
current version at the same time.

Do you think you will have released Perl 5.22 by then?  If it's not 
stable enough yet, maybe you could make a test release, and I could make 
a corresponding test release of Biber.

Thanks.

Ken

Re: Plans for Perl 5.22

[Achim Gratz]

Ken Brown writes:
> I'm wondering what your plans are for Perl 5.22, which I think is due
> to be released in a couple weeks.

It'll probably be released end of May if all current blockers are
resolved by that time.  If not, there's another 5.21 release and the
next release slot would be end of June.

> I'm expecting to release TeX Live
> 2015 in mid June, and it would be nice to be able to update Biber to
> the current version at the same time.
>
> Do you think you will have released Perl 5.22 by then?  If it's not
> stable enough yet, maybe you could make a test release, and I could
> make a corresponding test release of Biber.

I've been building the last few test releases and it looks there are no
Cygwin specific bugs that need to be taken care of.  So in principle I
could do the release rather fast.  However, considering the fact that
there are a bunch of Perl modules that need updating and not all of them
are mine, the most likely course of action is that I'll upload the new
Perl and my distributions to my own site so that interested parties (in
particular, other package maintainers) can pick it up from there, build
and test their stuff and we'll then coordinate the switchover.  I'll be
on a business trip beginning of June, so the actual release might be
later that month if everything else works out OK.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: Plans for Perl 5.22

[Achim Gratz]

Ken Brown writes:
> I'm wondering what your plans are for Perl 5.22, which I think is due
> to be released in a couple weeks.

I've just built perl-5.33-RC1.  I need to do some changes to actually be
able to package the result and then of course install it locally and
build the Perl distribution packages.  If that works out I could upload
it to my server for any interested folks to install from there.  I've
not been around for any release of Perl so I can't really say how this
will be handled, but there are a number of last minute changes that may
trigger an RC2, otherwise the release is scheduled for June 1st.  I
might just be able to get everything done before traveling in June, but
I'd prefer to postpone the Cygwin release to until after I'm back at the
end of that month.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: Plans for Perl 5.22

[Achim Gratz]

Achim Gratz writes:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> I'm wondering what your plans are for Perl 5.22, which I think is due
>> to be released in a couple weeks.
>
> I've just built perl-5.33-RC1.

That's perl-5.22-RC1 of course, sorry for the typo.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: Plans for Perl 5.22

[Ken Brown]

On 5/20/2015 3:39 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> I'm wondering what your plans are for Perl 5.22, which I think is due
>> to be released in a couple weeks.
>
> I've just built perl-5.33-RC1.  I need to do some changes to actually be
> able to package the result and then of course install it locally and
> build the Perl distribution packages.  If that works out I could upload
> it to my server for any interested folks to install from there.  I've
> not been around for any release of Perl so I can't really say how this
> will be handled, but there are a number of last minute changes that may
> trigger an RC2, otherwise the release is scheduled for June 1st.  I
> might just be able to get everything done before traveling in June, but
> I'd prefer to postpone the Cygwin release to until after I'm back at the
> end of that month.

That sounds reasonable.  I can certainly delay the release of TeX Live 
until then.

Ken