perl-5.22.0-RC2 / Perl distributions

[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:
> >
> >    https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=102766
> >
> > I think he's planning to pursue it further.
> 
> It doesn't look like anything is going to change in the near future. 
> According to the bug report I cited, Biber runs slower by a factor of 20 
> with version 1.18 of Unicode::Normalize than with version 1.17.  I don't 
> think that's acceptable.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Does anyone have a better idea?

Just ship 1.17 instead as curr:?

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Yaakov