Re: Unicode-Normalize [Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions]

2015-11-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > A new version of Biber has just been released, and I'll be updating > soon, probably some time next week. I've confirmed that it works fine > with version 1.23 of Unicode::Normalize, so feel free to update the > latter whenever you're ready. Thanks for the heads-up, will do wh

Re: Unicode-Normalize [Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions]

2015-10-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/20/2015 3:31 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: It doesn't look like anything is going to change in the near future. According to the bug report I cited, Biber runs slower by a factor of 20 with version 1.18 of Unicode::Normalize than with versi

Re: Unicode-Normalize [Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions]

2015-10-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/20/2015 3:31 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: It doesn't look like anything is going to change in the near future. According to the bug report I cited, Biber runs slower by a factor of 20 with version 1.18 of Unicode::Normalize than with versi

Unicode-Normalize [Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions]

2015-10-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > It doesn't look like anything is going to change in the near > future. According to the bug report I cited, Biber runs slower by a > factor of 20 with version 1.18 of Unicode::Normalize than with version > 1.17. I don't think that's acce

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: >> At the moment, judging from the ChangeLog, the only change for 1.18 was >> the removal of the XS code. So if that module still builds and works OK >> on 5.22 even though the API it is using has been deprecated, I think >> Cygwin should ship 1.17 as default until things

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 23:32 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: > > The only solution I can think of is to ship Biber as a self-contained > > Perl Archive made with PAR::Packer[*], built with version 1.17 of > > Unicode::Normalize. I've gotten the latter from backpan and built it > > loc

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > The only solution I can think of is to ship Biber as a self-contained > Perl Archive made with PAR::Packer[*], built with version 1.17 of > Unicode::Normalize. I've gotten the latter from backpan and built it > locally using the attached cygport file. At the moment, judging fr

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/10/2015 3:33 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 14:30 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: BTW, I contacted Philip Kime, the author of Biber, about Unicode::Normalize. He told me that version 1.18 is unusably slow. Here's a bug report he filed abou

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 14:30 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > > BTW, I contacted Philip Kime, the author of Biber, about > > Unicode::Normalize. He told me that version 1.18 is unusably slow. > > Here's a bug report he filed about it: > > > >https://rt.cpan.org

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: BTW, I contacted Philip Kime, the author of Biber, about Unicode::Normalize. He told me that version 1.18 is unusably slow. Here's a bug report he filed about it: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=102766 I think he's planning to pursue it

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-06-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/25/2015 01:00 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> I don't see perl-5.22.0-RC2 for x86_64. I'm attaching the setup.ini >> that setup-x86_64.exe downloaded from your server. > > That should be fixed. THanks for the heads-up. By the way, I just got a bounce message that my ISP was

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-26 Thread Achim Gratz
David Stacey writes: > Thanks for your e-mail. I'm very happy for you to upload perl-Text-CSV > and perl-Text-CSV_XS for the purposes of getting the new version of > perl rolled out. Thanks, that's the plan, then. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blof

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-26 Thread David Stacey
On 26/05/15 06:32, Achim Gratz wrote: David Stacey writes: I downloaded this with the intention of building perl-Text-CSV_XS and perl-Text-CSV, but discovered that you'd built them already! I'm more than happy for you to build these packages for the sake of transitioning to a new release of perl

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-25 Thread Achim Gratz
David Stacey writes: > I downloaded this with the intention of building perl-Text-CSV_XS and > perl-Text-CSV, but discovered that you'd built them already! I'm more > than happy for you to build these packages for the sake of > transitioning to a new release of perl, but I'd like to keep > maintena

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-25 Thread David Stacey
On 24/05/15 21:02, Achim Gratz wrote: I've built perl-5.22.0-RC2 and bootstrapped the Perl distributions for Cygwin (well, most of them -- I will send another ITA for some additional ones I've hat to build later). It doesn't make much sense to try a test release on sourceware, so I've uploaded t

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/25/2015 2:31 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: biber-1.8 seems fine with perl-5.22.0. Since I may be out of town with poor internet access when you're ready for the transition, I went ahead and uploaded it to sourceware (x86_64 only), along with a new release of texlive-collection-b

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > biber-1.8 seems fine with perl-5.22.0. Since I may be out of town > with poor internet access when you're ready for the transition, I went > ahead and uploaded it to sourceware (x86_64 only), along with a new > release of texlive-collection-bibtexextra [*]. At transition time,

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/25/2015 9:12 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/25/2015 3:00 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: 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 availab

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: >> 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. Sorry, this should be fixed now. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-25 Thread Ken Brown
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

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-25 Thread Achim Gratz
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. > Here's a trickier one:

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > I don't see perl-5.22.0-RC2 for x86_64. I'm attaching the setup.ini > that setup-x86_64.exe downloaded from your server. That should be fixed. THanks for the heads-up. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Imp

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-05-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/24/2015 4:02 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: I've built perl-5.22.0-RC2 and bootstrapped the Perl distributions for Cygwin (well, most of them -- I will send another ITA for some additional ones I've hat to build later). It doesn't make much sense to try a test release on sourceware, so I've upload