Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: 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

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/10/2015 3:33 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 14:30 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: 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

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 14:30 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/25/2015 2:45 PM, Ken Brown wrote: 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:

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Achim Gratz
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

Re: perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

2015-07-10 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
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