From: Chris Ross Date: 2002-06-11T08:09:27+09:00 Subject: Re: multiple instances of Ruby interpreter in my C++ code? On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:46:53 Sean Middleditch wrote: : On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 12:27, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote: : > Hello, [snip] : And in the end, this is all a lot of work for a hack around a problem : that doesn't exist with other languages, which are designed for : embedding. Ruby simply isn't made for doing this, you'd have to be : either a masochist or a Ruby fanatic (in the bad sense of the word) to : try this kind of thing instead of just using a better suited tool. It's : the opposite of trying to write a full-scale GUI app in Bash - it's : possible, but it's not the right tool for the job. This is a blatent plug, but you should check out ferite. It has threading in mind and does pretty much what is wanted in this thread [no pun intended]. It's not as mature as ruby but it's getting there slowly. I am releasing the latest version in about 5 days time, so then is probably a good time to look at it :) It's also meant to sit in other applications :) Give me a shout if you want more information. Regards, Chris -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Chris Ross | chris@darkrock.co.uk | ctr@ferite.org | | | http://www.darkrock.co.uk | http://www.ferite.org | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Salvador Dali for Coca Cola: "It's surreal thing.""