perl 5.32

[Ken Brown]

On 12/8/2020 2:05 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps writes:
>> I've just learned that the next release of biber is going to require
>> 5.32.  Do you have any plans to package the latter?
> 
> Well, I get that they always want to be on the bleeding edge of UTF-8,
> but otherwise is that version really a requirement?  The update itself
> isn't much of a problem I'd think, it's just that there's this slew of
> other packages to update in concert and the fact that most of them
> haven't yet added the perl5_030 require to prevent the update doing
> damage to an installation until such a package is actually updated.

Yes, unfortunately it really is a requirement.  But I'd be perfectly happy to 
just install 5.32 locally and use it for building the upstream biber (which is 
distributed as an archive created by PAR::Packer).  I can delay releasing 
Cygwin's biber package until you're ready to update perl.

Would it be easy for you to send me a cygport file that I could use for building 
my own perl 5.32?

Ken