Re: [ITA] perl-Error, perl-Locale-gettext, perl-Win32-GUI, perl-libwin32

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 3/12/2015 7:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Achim Gratz writes:
> > Ken, would you still know if the Log-Log4Perl and Text-BibTeX tests were
> > clean previously?  I'm getting what looks like an encoding problem from
> > Text-BibTeX and an offset in some file sizes(?) for Log-Log4Perl.

No, sorry.  I don't even know for sure if I ran the tests.

> The "offset" seems to be a file mode check that doesn't work due to me
> being an administrator.  Text-BibTeX tests clean in the stage2 build, so
> there's either a dependency cycle or missing dependency somewhere.  In
> any case, it looks good to me now.
>
> Lastly, could you please check if Biber really needs the obsolete
> File-Slurp-Unicode or couldn't just depend on File-Slurp instead?

The current upstream Biber depends on File-Slurp.  But it also requires 
Perl 5.16 or later, so I won't be able to rebuild it and get rid of the 
dependency on File-Slurp-Unicode until you update Perl in May.

Ken