perl-5.24?

[Ken Brown]

On 7/18/2016 3:39 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown@...> writes:
>> I'm wondering whether you have plans to update perl to 5.24.  The biber
>> developer has just announced that the next version of biber will require
>> it because "they have the postfix dereference notion officially
>> supported and I can get rid of the the horrible circumfix operator syntax".
>
> The RC1 for 5.24.1 is available now.  If it's binary compatible with the
> 5.22 modules, I could update  Perl without too much trouble, I think.

Thanks.  The INSTALL file says that it's not binary compatible and that 
XS modules will have to be recompiled.  It looks like we have about 8 of 
those in the distro.

Ken