Re: Plans for Perl 5.22

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>]

Ken Brown writes:
> I'm wondering what your plans are for Perl 5.22, which I think is due
> to be released in a couple weeks.

It'll probably be released end of May if all current blockers are
resolved by that time.  If not, there's another 5.21 release and the
next release slot would be end of June.

> I'm expecting to release TeX Live
> 2015 in mid June, and it would be nice to be able to update Biber to
> the current version at the same time.
>
> Do you think you will have released Perl 5.22 by then?  If it's not
> stable enough yet, maybe you could make a test release, and I could
> make a corresponding test release of Biber.

I've been building the last few test releases and it looks there are no
Cygwin specific bugs that need to be taken care of.  So in principle I
could do the release rather fast.  However, considering the fact that
there are a bunch of Perl modules that need updating and not all of them
are mine, the most likely course of action is that I'll upload the new
Perl and my distributions to my own site so that interested parties (in
particular, other package maintainers) can pick it up from there, build
and test their stuff and we'll then coordinate the switchover.  I'll be
on a business trip beginning of June, so the actual release might be
later that month if everything else works out OK.


Regards,
Achim.
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