Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

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-bibtexextra [*].  At transition time,
> > someone just has to put !ready in my x86_64 upload area.
>
> Thanks, Ken.  Have a nice vacation!

Thanks, and thanks again for all your work on Perl.

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 further.

Ken