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What a load of crap.What a load of crap.Posted Aug 28, 2008 20:14 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)Parent article: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)
The writers conclusion that no Linux distribution is up for the Enterprise and people should use Sun was real "fair and balanced" reporting. It has been my experience that usually takes 12-24 months for a performance issue to get fixed by Sun, IBM, or HP. It seemed the more money you paid in a service contract, the longer you had to wait.
The funny thing is the patch that breaks things looks to be an upstream patch to fix a real bug in 5.8.8.
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=34925
Whee.
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What a load of crap. Posted Aug 28, 2008 20:40 UTC (Thu) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]
12-24 months? LUXURY! There are serious bugs in the Java bug database which have been unfixed since the mid 1990s. Now that the source code has been released, a lot of these serious bugs have been revealed for the low-hanging fruit everybody thought they were all along.
If the author wanted to pick an exemplar of fast bug fixing, he should have picked someone other than Sun.
What a load of crap. Posted Aug 28, 2008 20:45 UTC (Thu) by chromatic (guest, #26207) [Link] The funny thing is the patch that breaks things looks to be an upstream patch to fix a real bug in 5.8.8. Nicholas Clark, the release manager for Perl 5.8.x commented on this bug. In particular, this problem was never present in any released version of Perl. Red Hat incorporated a pre-release patch into their version of Perl and maintained it across stable Perl releases, even though it was no longer appropriate, without contacting upstream. Backporting and maintaining cherry-picked patches from upstream without contacting upstream is generally a bad idea.
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