From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-04-17T16:24:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby memory allocation

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:35 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
<znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>  Do you absolutely have to have Ruby 1.8? You might be able to use Ruby 1.6,

I remember a thread where they used 1.6 and had problems with ruby crashes,
it was too late for them to upgrade and they offered a bounty for a fix
(though I don't remember what was the end of the story...)

Original thread:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/11368
this might be related:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/14085

1.6 might be unmaintained.