Having started this thread based on ESRs comments on the python-devel list, I thought I'd throw in another opportunity (this time from http://lwn.net/2001/0802/#security and http://www.securesw.com/rats). RATS, the Rough Auditing Tool for Security, is in beta for a 1.1 release. This new release features security auditing support for Perl and Python in addition to the original C auditing capabilities. What value would there be in trying to develop/add support for Ruby? -pate