On 12/8/2020 2:05 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps writes:
I've just learned that the next release of biber is going to require
5.32. Do you have any plans to package the latter?
Well, I get that they always want to be on the bleeding edge of UTF-8,
but otherwise is that version really a requirement? The update itself
isn't much of a problem I'd think, it's just that there's this slew of
other packages to update in concert and the fact that most of them
haven't yet added the perl5_030 require to prevent the update doing
damage to an installation until such a package is actually updated.
Yes, unfortunately it really is a requirement. But I'd be perfectly happy to
just install 5.32 locally and use it for building the upstream biber (which is
distributed as an archive created by PAR::Packer). I can delay releasing
Cygwin's biber package until you're ready to update perl.
Would it be easy for you to send me a cygport file that I could use for building
my own perl 5.32?
Ken
