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Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions
- From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:27:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions
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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
> > locally using the attached cygport file.
>
> 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 are sorted out upstream.
I fetched 1.17 from BackPAN[1], and it builds and passes the testsuite
with 5.22.
[1] http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SA/SADAHIRO/Unicode-Normalize-1.17.tar.gz
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Yaakov