From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: perl-5.24?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <809dcad6-e168-ce2c-1576-fec00c72d6cd@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20160718T093635-307@post.gmane.org>
On 7/18/2016 3:39 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown@...> writes:
>> I'm wondering whether you have plans to update perl to 5.24. The biber
>> developer has just announced that the next version of biber will require
>> it because "they have the postfix dereference notion officially
>> supported and I can get rid of the the horrible circumfix operator syntax".
>
> The RC1 for 5.24.1 is available now. If it's binary compatible with the
> 5.22 modules, I could update Perl without too much trouble, I think.
Thanks. The INSTALL file says that it's not binary compatible and that
XS modules will have to be recompiled. It looks like we have about 8 of
those in the distro.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-18 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-07 13:57 perl-5.24? Ken Brown
2016-07-07 15:46 ` perl-5.24? Achim Gratz
2016-07-18 7:40 ` perl-5.24? Achim Gratz
2016-07-18 12:03 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2017-04-07 21:57 ` perl-5.24? Ken Brown
2017-04-08 6:42 ` perl-5.24? Achim Gratz
2017-04-08 16:55 ` perl-5.24? Achim Gratz
2017-04-08 21:10 ` perl-5.24? Ken Brown
2017-04-09 6:36 ` perl-5.24? Achim Gratz
2017-04-09 9:50 ` perl-5.24? Achim Gratz
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