From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-25T17:28:34+09:00
Subject: Re: embedding ruby inside an application?

Hi,

In message "Re: embedding ruby inside an application?"
    on 02/09/25, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> writes:

|> Embedding Ruby has the following restrictions:
|>
|>   * one interpreter per proecss (no interpreter object)
|>   * no interpreter reset
|>   * GC do not work well with native thread
|
|Are these being addressed in 1.7 or future versions? Or is this by 
|design?

For the good news, it is planned to fix these problems in the next
major release, so called Rite (Ruby 2.0).

For the bad news, it still is a vaporware.  No fixed date nor roadmap
is revealed.

							matz.