Plans for Perl 5.22

2015-05-05 Thread Ken Brown

Hi Achim,

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


Thanks.

Ken


Re: Plans for Perl 5.22

2015-05-05 Thread Achim Gratz
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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Re: [ITP] cfitsio : FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) lib and utility

2015-05-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Marco Atzeri writes:
> Noted. But he patched autoconf and I patched cmake build.
> Similar outcome, I just packed more utilities.
>
> I will look at the zlib approach

In any case, since a bunch of Ports packages depend on that library,
you'll need to coordinate the move into Cygwin with Yaakov.  Since
you're planning to package a new version, I think this would be easiest
if you only added packages, but otherwise kept the packaging the same,
so that the Cygwin package was a drop-in replacement.


Regards,
Achim.
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