Note: This message was originally in the CentOS mailing list: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-August/063379.html Transferred to centos-devel to fulfill Karanbir's wish (see below). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org> Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:39 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] slow Perl on CentOS 5 To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Akemi Yagi wrote: > > should explore the problem further with TUV and the CentOS > community. If a fix is not forthcoming from TUV, I reluctantly suggest > that we get together with the CentOS people and fork this portion of > the distro, perhaps standardizing on Perl 5.10 . There are people > in the Perl community ready to assist us. While forking the whole perl subsection of the distro is a bit drastic, I am quite happy to have a perl in C5Plus. Does someone want to get in touch with Keith and get a summary on what needs fixing in this case ? Also - if the conversation was to take place on centos-devel list, would be much cooler. Upstream have said the fix will be in 5U3, and considering that might be still a few months away, could we get something sorted before then ? ( questions, since I dont use perl myself ) -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos at irc.freenode.net -------- End of Forwarded message ------- There was an additional post to the same SL M/L thread which has a link relevant to fixing the broken RH perl. http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/37274 Akemi