perl-5.24?

[Ken Brown]

On 4/8/2017 12:55 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> It looks like 5.26.0 is due to be released in a couple weeks.  What
>> are your plans for updating?  Do you think it might happen in time for
>> TeX Live 2017 (expected to be released in late May or early June)?  If
>> not, I'll probably have to temporarily go back to the old system of
>> shipping biber as a packed Perl archive.
>
> Well, damn the torpedoes.  I've uploaded a test version for Perl
> 5.24.1.  If you try it, please check if simply linking the 5.22
> directories under 5.24 works for you.  If not, remove those links and
> either build the distributions you need locally or let me know which
> ones I should provide.

Actually it was easier to just install the biber prerequisites using 
cpan.  I build and tested biber, and it seems fine.

Thanks.

Ken