[Ruby] ANN: ruby2c 1.0.0 beta 5 released

[Ryan Davis]

After almost a year, I'm pleased to announce that another beta of  
ruby2c is available. The project stagnated for a bit, but is coming  
back in force! We've solidified this release by gemifying it,  
splitting up our tail end translator to convert to either ANSI C or  
ruby internals C, and making it much more happy with other tool- 
chains (like our obfuscator).

ruby_to_c translates a static ruby subset to C. Hopefully it works.

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                    THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE!

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RubyToC has the following modules:

	Rewriter      - massages the sexp into a more consistent form.
	TypeChecker   - type inferencer for the above sexps.
	RubyToRubyC   - converts a ruby (subset) sexp to ruby interals C.
	RubyToAnsiC   - converts a ruby (subset) sexp to ANSI C.

and the following tools:

	translate.rb  - Translates a given file to C.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

+ This is a preview release! BETA BETA BETA! Do NOT use this!
+ Please contact me or Eric (drbrain of segment7 dot net) if you:
	+ have any feedback!
	+ have any changes!
	+ want to work on this!

CHANGES:

+ 6 minor enhancements:
	+ Split RubyToC to RubyToRubyC and RubyToAnsiC.
	+ Extended Environment to be more flexible for various situations.
	+ Removed propaganda (bloat) from release.
	+ Gemified and reorganized things. Support still needs splitting up.
	+ Flipped a lot of internal naming to use Unique.
	+ Added ruby_to_c_show (like parse_tree_show).
+ 4(ish) bug fixes:
	+ Use ivars instead of cvars so inheritance won't bugger the  
translator.
	+ Corrected unsupported node lists in pipeline.
	+ Fixed bugs for splat args, iters, optional args, method name map.
	+ Fixed many other bugs.

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