Hello,

On Jun 26, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> PM> ruby-web provides a web-friendly version of the ruby  
> interpreter.  It
> PM> incorporates these features inspired by php:
>
> Can you please point out if you changed the ruby interpreter (or other
> libraries) to implement your code.
>
> If not i would like to see this discussed on ruby-talk and not
> ruby-core and on the individuell project local mailing lists.

The main change to the interpreter is to ensure that the interpreter  
reports errors in a cgi friendly way, i.e. returning the proper web  
headers, and a web formatted error.  Also, the ruby-web interpreter  
takes care of closing connections to the web server / fastcgi server.

Matz has demonstrated how to do this with continuations, but I have  
experienced instability with this technique:

     http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/3358

I wanted to give the core ruby developers a heads up why I will be  
releasing a "forked" interpreter, to avoid future miss- 
understanding.  I will take up your suggestion to post to ruby-talk,  
and I also agree that future discussion of this projects should occur  
on the project list:

     narf-lib-devel / lists.sourceforge.net

Finally, the end goal of this project is to be a proposed addition to  
the core.

I'm sick of using PHP, I'm sick of watching it win the web.

Cheers,

Patrick