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7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
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42 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
47 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
50 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
68 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
75 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
78 All assemblies compile.
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94 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
97 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
98 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
99 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
100 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
102 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
103 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
104 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
105 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
106 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
107 server on Unix using Mono.
109 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
110 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
111 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
112 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
114 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
115 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/date.html">update</a>
116 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
117 new test application that people can use to test their
118 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
119 you can participate in the <a
120 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
123 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
124 href="http://brian.www1.dotnetplayground.com/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
126 href="http://brian.www1.dotnetplayground.com/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
129 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
130 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
132 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
133 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
134 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
135 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
137 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
139 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
140 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
142 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
143 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
145 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
146 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
147 new technology are <a
148 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
149 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
151 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
152 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
153 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
155 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
156 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
159 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
160 see Windows screenshots for it <a
161 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
162 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
164 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
167 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
168 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
170 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
171 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
172 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
174 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
176 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
177 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
180 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
182 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
183 in Open Office file format.
185 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
187 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
188 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
190 Tim Coleman posted an <a
191 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
192 on the improvements in the System.Data
194 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
195 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
197 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
199 Tim's SqlClient is <a
200 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
201 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
202 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
203 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
205 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
207 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
208 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
209 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
210 been working on the Security classes.
212 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
213 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
214 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
215 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
217 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
218 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
220 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
223 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
224 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
226 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
228 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
231 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
232 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
233 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
234 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
235 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
236 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
238 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
239 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
240 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
241 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
242 list</a> mailing list.
244 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
245 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
246 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
247 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
248 data adapter is also coming soon.
250 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
252 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
253 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
254 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
255 are not supported by the .NET framework.
257 Last week we created a new <a
258 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
259 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
261 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
262 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
265 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
267 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
268 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
269 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
270 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
271 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
272 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
273 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
274 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
275 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
276 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
278 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
279 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
280 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
281 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
282 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
283 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
284 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
285 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
288 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
290 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
291 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
292 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
294 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
295 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
297 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
298 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
299 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
300 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
301 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
302 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
303 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
305 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
306 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
307 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
308 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
309 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
312 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
313 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
314 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
315 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
316 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
317 Documentation Tools</a>.
319 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
321 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
322 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
323 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
324 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
326 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
327 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
328 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
329 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
330 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
331 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
332 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
333 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
334 configuration file `machine.config'.
336 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
338 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
340 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
341 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
342 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
345 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
346 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
347 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
348 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
349 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
351 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
353 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
354 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
356 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
357 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
358 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
359 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
360 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
361 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
364 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
366 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
367 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
368 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
370 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
371 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
372 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
373 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
376 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
378 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
379 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
382 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
384 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
385 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
386 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
389 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
390 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
391 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
392 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
393 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
394 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
397 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
399 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
400 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
401 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
402 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
403 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
404 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
406 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
407 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
408 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
410 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
411 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
412 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
413 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
414 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
415 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
416 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
417 on making a good UI in the future.
419 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
420 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
421 This is the substrate for implementing the
422 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
424 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
425 classes implementation.
427 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
428 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
429 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
430 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
431 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
434 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
437 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
438 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
439 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
440 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
441 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
442 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
443 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
444 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
446 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
449 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
450 announced an Apache module that hosts
451 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
452 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
455 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
457 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
458 released a fresh version of <a
459 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
460 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
462 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
464 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
465 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
466 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
468 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
470 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
471 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
472 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
475 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
476 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
479 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
481 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
482 on par with the PPC port.
484 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
485 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
486 code for the remoting infrastructure.
488 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
489 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
492 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
494 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
495 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
496 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
497 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
499 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
500 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
501 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
502 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
504 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
505 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
506 for structure marshaling.
508 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
509 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
510 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
511 to integrate with Patrik's code.
513 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
514 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
515 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
517 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
520 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
522 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
523 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
524 a successful free software project.
526 The first, deserved, entry goes to
527 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
528 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
529 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
530 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
532 @item Looking for volunteers
534 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
535 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
539 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
541 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
542 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
543 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
544 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
545 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
547 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
548 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
549 library documentation.
551 We have some special needs (read them <a
552 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
553 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
554 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
555 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
557 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
558 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
559 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
562 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
563 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
564 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
567 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
569 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
570 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
571 assignment in the C# language.
573 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
576 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
577 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
578 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
580 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
581 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
582 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
584 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
585 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
586 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
588 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
591 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
592 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
593 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
595 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
597 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
598 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
599 your sources for the <a
600 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
601 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
603 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
604 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
605 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
606 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
607 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
609 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
611 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
612 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
614 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
615 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
616 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
617 associated web service tools.
619 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
621 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
623 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
624 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
626 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
627 has been translated as well.
629 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
631 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
632 now landed on the CVS repository.
634 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
635 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
636 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
637 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
640 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
641 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
642 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
646 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
647 available online, from young director <a
648 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
649 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
652 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
653 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
655 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
656 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
657 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
658 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
660 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
661 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
662 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
666 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
667 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
668 compiler and the Mono runtime.
670 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
671 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
672 from the source code it is compiling.
674 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
675 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
676 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
680 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
681 The resulting image contained errors though.
683 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
684 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
686 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
687 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
688 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
690 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
691 run the compiler on Linux.
693 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
694 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
696 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
697 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
698 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
700 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
701 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
704 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
705 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
706 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
708 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
709 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
710 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
711 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
712 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
713 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
714 code is cross platform.
718 Ajay was the first to notice <a
719 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
720 Mono's first birthday</a>.
722 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
724 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
725 * A complete CLI implementation:
727 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
728 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
730 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
731 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
732 * 92,000 lines of C code.
733 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
734 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
735 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
736 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
737 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
740 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
741 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
742 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
743 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
744 been possible without every contribution.
746 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
747 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
749 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
750 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
751 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
752 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
753 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
754 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
755 to integrate with other object systems.
757 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
758 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
759 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
762 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
763 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
764 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
765 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
770 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
773 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
774 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
775 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
776 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
777 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
778 applications like these in the near future.
780 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
781 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
782 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
783 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
784 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
785 architecture independent layer.
787 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
788 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
789 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
790 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
791 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
792 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
793 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
794 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
795 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
798 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
799 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
804 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
805 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
806 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
808 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
809 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
811 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
812 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
813 applications with it. Details are <a
814 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
816 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
820 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
821 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
822 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
823 being defined at that point to perform compares).
825 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
826 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
827 our resulting corlib.
829 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
831 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
832 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
833 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
834 now a good development tool.
836 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
837 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
838 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
839 bindings, that should simplify application development.
841 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
842 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
846 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
847 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
848 to promote free software is going very well.
850 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
852 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
853 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
855 On Monday Piers Haken <a
856 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
857 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
858 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
860 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
861 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
862 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
863 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
864 This means for example that any process can check on the
865 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
867 Of course, those interested
868 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
873 Duncan has written a few sample <a
874 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
876 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
878 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
880 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
881 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
883 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
888 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
889 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
891 Also, we are getting close to
892 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
893 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
894 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
896 Steam is picking up in <a
897 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
898 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
899 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
900 libraries, which is nice to see.
904 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
905 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
906 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
908 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
909 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
910 match the Microsoft implementation.
914 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
915 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
918 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
919 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
924 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
925 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
929 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
930 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
933 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
934 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
935 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
939 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
943 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
944 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
945 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
946 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
948 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
949 been checked into CVS.
951 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
952 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
954 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
955 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
956 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
960 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
961 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
962 that process this data.
964 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
965 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
969 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
970 System.Data class library.
975 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
976 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
978 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
979 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
980 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
981 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
985 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
986 on the Mono runtime. This <a
987 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
988 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
992 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
993 it is possible to get <a
994 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
995 number</a> information on stack traces.
999 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1000 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1001 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1003 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1004 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1006 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1007 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1009 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1010 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1012 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1013 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1015 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1019 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1021 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1026 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1027 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1028 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1030 You can find more information
1031 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1033 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1034 and others for these bits.
1038 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1039 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1040 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1041 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1042 should make it easier to use and compile.
1044 This is another milestone for our <a
1045 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1047 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1051 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1052 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1053 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1055 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1056 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1057 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1058 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1059 expose to applications.
1062 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1063 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1064 support</a>, Mike <a
1065 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1070 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1071 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1075 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1076 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1077 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1079 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1084 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1085 fixes and more classes are included.
1087 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1088 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1089 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1093 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1094 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1095 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1099 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1101 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1106 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1108 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1109 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1110 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1112 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1115 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1116 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1117 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1118 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1119 exceptions work). Check <a
1120 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1123 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1124 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1126 Early this week Patrik started the string
1127 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1128 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1130 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1131 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1133 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1134 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1137 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1138 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1139 together are very powerful.
1141 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1142 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1148 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1149 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1151 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1152 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1157 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1158 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1160 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1161 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1162 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1166 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1167 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1168 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1169 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1173 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1174 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1175 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1180 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1181 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1182 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1187 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1190 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1191 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1192 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1196 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1197 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1198 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1202 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1203 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1206 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1207 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1208 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1209 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1214 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1215 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1216 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1217 debugging information).
1219 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1220 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1222 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1223 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1224 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1226 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1227 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1230 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1231 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1232 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1234 Remember to post your bug reports.
1236 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1237 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1238 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1239 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1243 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1244 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1245 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1247 A release will follow up shortly.
1251 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1252 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1257 MCS compiles on Linux!
1259 Today Paolo got the <a
1260 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1261 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1262 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1263 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1264 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1265 speed was improved in 400%
1267 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1269 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1270 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1274 The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
1276 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1277 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1278 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1280 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1281 revamped regression test suite.
1283 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1284 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1286 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1287 killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
1291 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1296 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1297 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1298 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1300 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1304 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1305 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1306 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1307 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1309 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1310 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1311 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1315 Paolo posted a list of <a
1316 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1317 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1318 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1323 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1327 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1329 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1333 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1335 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1336 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1337 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1340 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1341 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1342 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1346 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1347 Self hosting is closer every day.
1349 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1353 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1355 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1357 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1358 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1359 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1360 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1362 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1363 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1364 you will get one of the machines.
1368 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1372 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1373 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1374 this with the --share-code command line option.
1376 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1379 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1383 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1385 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1386 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1387 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1388 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1389 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1391 Miguel is off to the <a
1392 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1396 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1398 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1399 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1402 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1403 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1404 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1408 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1409 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1412 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1413 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1416 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1417 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1418 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1419 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1421 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1422 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1423 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1426 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1427 a set of web server classes for <a
1428 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1429 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1432 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1433 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1437 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1438 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1439 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1444 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1445 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1449 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1451 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1452 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1454 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1455 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1456 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1457 set of the Perl regex engine).
1461 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1463 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1465 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1466 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1468 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1469 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1472 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1476 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1477 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1478 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1479 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1483 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1484 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1485 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1487 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1488 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1489 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1493 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1494 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1495 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1497 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1498 non-Windows platforms.
1500 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1501 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1502 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1503 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1508 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1509 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1510 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1511 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1516 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1517 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1518 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1521 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1522 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1527 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1528 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1529 year, new direction</i></a>.
1531 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1532 System.Windows.Forms.
1536 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1537 development of the compiler with itself.
1539 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1540 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1541 on Linux before the end of the month.
1543 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1544 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1545 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1549 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1550 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1551 being fixed quickly.
1553 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1557 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1559 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1561 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1562 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1564 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1565 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1570 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1571 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1573 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1574 implementation is there.
1578 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1579 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1580 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1581 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1582 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1583 reduce spills and reloads.
1585 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1586 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1587 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1588 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1590 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1592 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1593 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1598 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1599 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1600 Climent for helping to set this up.
1604 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1607 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1610 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1614 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1615 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1617 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1618 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1621 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1623 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1628 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1629 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1630 on Gtk# development.
1636 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1637 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1638 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1639 program is executed.
1641 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1642 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1645 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1646 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1647 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1649 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1650 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1651 made up of 40 tests).
1653 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1654 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1655 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1657 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1658 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1660 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1661 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1664 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1665 replace our interpreter in production.
1671 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1672 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1674 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1676 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1682 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1684 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1690 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1697 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1698 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1699 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1701 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1704 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1706 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1707 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1708 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1709 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1710 important piece of the puzzle.
1716 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1718 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1721 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1722 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1728 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1729 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1730 the array handling support.
1736 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1739 Some large recent developments:
1741 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1742 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1743 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1745 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1746 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1747 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1749 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1750 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1751 optimize foreach for the array case).
1753 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1754 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1755 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1756 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1757 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1758 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1759 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1760 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1762 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1763 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1769 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1770 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1771 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1773 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1774 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1775 recent C# compiler progress.
1781 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1782 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1788 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1789 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1791 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1792 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1793 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1794 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1796 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1803 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1804 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1806 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1808 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1809 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1816 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1817 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1818 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1819 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1821 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1822 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1823 basically focusing on completeness now.
1830 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1831 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1837 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1838 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1839 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1840 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1841 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1842 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1843 handled correctly (Miguel).
1849 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1850 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1851 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1852 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1853 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1859 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1860 Mono</a> to other architectures.
1866 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1867 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1868 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1869 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1875 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1876 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1877 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1878 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1880 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1886 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1887 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1894 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1895 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1897 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1904 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1905 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1911 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1912 will let you run it.
1914 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
1915 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1917 Good work Mono team!
1923 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1924 are available here: <a
1925 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1931 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1933 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1934 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1940 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1941 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1942 without access to the <a
1943 href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
1949 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1950 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1956 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1957 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1958 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1964 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1965 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1966 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1972 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1973 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1974 get the new class libraries from <a
1975 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1981 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1982 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1983 get the new class libraries from <a
1984 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1990 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1991 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1992 get the new class libraries from <a
1993 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1995 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1997 Got Sean's new Class
1998 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1999 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2005 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2006 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2007 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2014 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2016 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2022 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2023 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2024 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2036 Brian posted a story on <a
2037 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>