ANN: ruby2c 1.0.0 beta 5 released

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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