From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8262 invoked by alias); 25 May 2015 13:13:28 -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 8249 invoked by uid 89); 25 May 2015 13:13:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 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; Mon, 25 May 2015 13:13:17 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t4PDDFE7009276 for ; Mon, 25 May 2015 09:13:15 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t4PDDDFg001135 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 25 May 2015 09:13:14 -0400 Message-ID: <55631FDB.10201@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 13:13:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions References: <87iobhvj4f.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <5562881F.7000301@cornell.edu> <87iobh3zwg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> In-Reply-To: <87iobh3zwg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00049.txt.bz2 On 5/25/2015 3:00 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> The latest version of Biber requires autovivification, XML::Writer, >> and Text::Roman. And Test::Difference is required for running the >> tests. Can you add those? > > I have the first two already from my last look at Biber… OK, the rest is > now up, too. I don't see XML::Writer. >> Here's a trickier one: Biber wants Unicode::Normalize, version <= >> 1.17. There's a comment that says "1.18 removes XS and is too slow". >> I'm not sure what to do about that. Any advice? > > That is due to a deprecation in Perl 5.20 and later: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Revision history for Perl extension Unicode::Normalize. > > 1.18 Tue May 27 22:04:23 2014 > - XSUB is now deprecated and removed. see perl 5.20.0, > perldelta, Internal Changes, deprecation of uvuni_to_utf8 etc. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > 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. Ken