Re: [PATCH 00/29] Add Biber

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:34:53PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Hi Guix,
>> 
>> this patch set adds Biber, the bibliography backend for biblatex.  It's
>> actually supposed to be part of the Texlive distribution, but our Texlive
>> package only comes with a source tarball of Biber.
>
> Overall LGTM.

Thanks for taking the time to look over the patches!

>> (I use Biber for Unicode references in APA style.)
>> 
>> All packages were linted.  The only unusual thing here is that the latest
>> Biber doesn't work with the 2016 Texlive distribution, so I named the latest
>> Biber "biber-next" and added "biber-2.5" with package name "biber", so that
>> users installing "biber" with "texlive" get the right thing.
>
> I'm curious, what happens if one tries biber-next? Does it build?

It builds but at runtime it will complain that the installed version of
biblatex is incompatible according to the compatibility matrix in the
biber documentation.  Biblatex is part of texlive.

-- 
Ricardo

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