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A major problem with the officially distributed version of Perl on Red Hat Enterprise Linux has led to a firestorm of complaints among developers. The problem, which also manifests itself on some versions of the Fedora and CentOS Linux distributions, means that some programs will take more than 100 (yes, one hundred) times longer to execute under Red Hat than other distributions. A Red Hat engineer has indicated that it will fix the problem in its next release (i.e., Red Hat Enterprise 5.3), but has not said when that update will arrive.
If the Red Hat engineer already knows what's wrong with Perl, why not simply tell their customers how to fix it, instead of making them wait for RH to release it in the next version?
That's trying to turn The Bazaar into The Cathedral.
I'd love for them to get more specific. I wonder when this problem started. If this is as bad as the story says, it's a huge problem for servers, and letting it persist is a bad thing, indeed.
I expect it started in the Red Hat codebase. If it were a problem in core Perl, it would affect many more distros.
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That's trying to turn The Bazaar into The Cathedral.