On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:48:40AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > Unless trunk's 7.6 is severely delayed, this proposal is for 7.7 : > among other things, I need to check some things on a clean system > (with all the known deps but not too much else, and certainly no > addiitional perl), and for the new packages I will need to find out > more details before I'm ready to create pages.
So, I had to get up early (for me) today, which meant I've been changing my hours for the last two days, and mostly too tired to do what I had intended (going out, driving). Instead, I've been playing with biber, and then today I've sorted xindy. Altering texlive to build with, or without, the binary installer is definitely 7.7 material. [ snip most of the earlier post, whilst noting for Bruce that I have NO intention of removing the binary installer in the future : perhaps one day, somebody who knows how to use its updater can be persuaded to write something brief about it so that people who use the binaries can live on the sharp edge. ] > 2.6 add whichever modules are needed by biber to the perl modules > page. I am in two minds about showing how to build those using > Build.PL, but something is needed, and this will change in the > future : > |Module::Build will be removed from the Perl core distribution in the > |next major release. Please install it from CPAN. It is being used at > |Build.PL, line 5. > > That also applies to biber itself, so perhaps a link like "see > biblatex-biber for details of how to use Build.PL" will do the job. > Or (2.7 below) I could add them, with a suggested build order, to > the (biblatex-)biber page ? > > 2.7 I am not particularly keen on dropping (biblatex-)biber into the > perl modules, although it could go there. I would prefer to give it > a separate page along with the other TeX stuff. Perhaps that page > could itself contain the (mostly external) links to the perl modules > which it needs ? Either way, it needs to note that people should use > the version shipped with texlive. > On reflection, it is _probably_ better to put all the modules used by biber on the perl-modules page. I'll see how it goes. There are quite a lot of modules eplicitly sought by biber - for those not already in the book (most of them) I'll add them with versions, with links for their dependencies as has been done for what is already there. I'll also add instructions for using Build.PL for the three modules which use that method. If I get all that done, and looking acceptable to me, I'll take a look at putting biber on a new page in the Typesetting section - it comes primarily from Sourceforge, so arguably it is not (just) a perl module. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
