From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-08-07T18:25:45+09:00
Subject: Re: State of Ruby 1.8.6?

Hi,

At Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:53:25 +0900,
Alex Fenton wrote in [ruby-talk:310354]:
> I was thinking of, for example, making "object allocation during garbage 
> collection phase" throw an rb_bug. It was this change:
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/repositories/revision/ruby-18?rev=15429

Yesterday I twisted GC code and guess the failure would
disappear now.

> I understand the reason for the patch [ruby-bugs:11859] but it 
> substantially altered extensions' expectations of how to interact with 
> GC, and so broke a considerable number (eg libxml, wxruby, ruby-gnome2, 
> cairo...)

They were just so lucky.

-- 
Nobu Nakada