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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
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.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
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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.
86 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
94 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
96 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
97 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for an overview of
98 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
100 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
102 A new issue of the <a
103 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
104 Weekly News</a> has been published.
106 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
107 that Sebastien has put together.
109 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
111 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
112 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
113 improved this to use implicit names as well.
115 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
116 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
117 per-thread basis now.
119 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
120 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
121 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
122 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
123 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
125 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
126 statements on the grammar.
128 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
129 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
131 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
133 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
134 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
135 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
138 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
139 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
140 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
142 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
143 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
144 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
145 of their product, also using Mono.
147 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
150 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
151 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
152 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
153 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
155 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
156 and its available from our <a
157 href="download.html">download</a> page.
159 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
161 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
163 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
164 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
165 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
167 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
168 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
169 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
170 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
171 asp.net has been released as well.
173 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
175 This release also includes a new exception handling system
176 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
177 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
179 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
181 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
182 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
183 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
184 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
187 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
188 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
189 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
191 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
194 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
197 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
198 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
199 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
200 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
202 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
203 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
204 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
205 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
206 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
207 server on Unix using Mono.
209 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
210 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
211 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
212 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
214 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
215 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
216 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
217 new test application that people can use to test their
218 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
219 you can participate in the <a
220 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
223 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
224 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
226 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
229 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
230 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
232 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
233 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
234 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
235 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
237 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
239 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
240 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
242 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
243 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
245 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
246 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
247 new technology are <a
248 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
249 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
251 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
252 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
253 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
255 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
256 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
259 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
260 see Windows screenshots for it <a
261 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
262 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
264 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
267 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
268 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
270 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
271 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
272 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
274 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
276 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
277 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
280 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
282 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
283 in Open Office file format.
285 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
287 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
288 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
290 Tim Coleman posted an <a
291 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
292 on the improvements in the System.Data
294 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
295 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
297 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
299 Tim's SqlClient is <a
300 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
301 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
302 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
303 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
305 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
307 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
308 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
309 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
310 been working on the Security classes.
312 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
313 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
314 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
315 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
317 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
318 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
320 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
323 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
324 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
326 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
328 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
331 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
332 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
333 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
334 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
335 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
336 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
338 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
339 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
340 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
341 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
342 list</a> mailing list.
344 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
345 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
346 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
347 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
348 data adapter is also coming soon.
350 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
352 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
353 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
354 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
355 are not supported by the .NET framework.
357 Last week we created a new <a
358 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
359 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
361 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
362 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
365 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
367 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
368 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
369 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
370 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
371 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
372 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
373 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
374 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
375 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
376 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
378 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
379 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
380 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
381 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
382 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
383 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
384 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
385 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
388 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
390 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
391 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
392 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
394 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
395 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
397 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
398 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
399 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
400 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
401 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
402 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
403 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
405 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
406 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
407 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
408 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
409 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
412 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
413 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
414 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
415 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
416 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
417 Documentation Tools</a>.
419 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
421 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
422 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
423 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
424 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
426 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
427 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
428 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
429 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
430 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
431 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
432 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
433 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
434 configuration file `machine.config'.
436 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
438 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
440 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
441 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
442 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
445 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
446 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
447 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
448 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
449 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
451 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
453 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
454 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
456 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
457 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
458 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
459 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
460 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
461 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
464 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
466 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
467 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
468 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
470 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
471 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
472 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
473 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
476 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
478 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
479 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
482 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
484 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
485 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
486 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
489 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
490 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
491 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
492 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
493 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
494 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
497 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
499 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
500 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
501 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
502 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
503 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
504 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
506 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
507 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
508 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
510 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
511 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
512 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
513 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
514 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
515 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
516 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
517 on making a good UI in the future.
519 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
520 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
521 This is the substrate for implementing the
522 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
524 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
525 classes implementation.
527 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
528 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
529 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
530 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
531 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
534 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
537 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
538 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
539 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
540 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
541 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
542 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
543 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
544 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
546 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
549 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
550 announced an Apache module that hosts
551 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
552 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
555 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
557 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
558 released a fresh version of <a
559 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
560 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
562 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
564 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
565 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
566 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
568 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
570 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
571 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
572 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
575 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
576 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
579 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
581 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
583 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
584 on par with the PPC port.
586 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
587 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
588 code for the remoting infrastructure.
590 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
591 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
594 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
596 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
597 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
598 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
599 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
601 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
602 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
603 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
604 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
606 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
607 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
608 for structure marshaling.
610 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
611 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
612 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
613 to integrate with Patrik's code.
615 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
616 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
617 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
619 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
622 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
624 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
625 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
626 a successful free software project.
628 The first, deserved, entry goes to
629 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
630 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
631 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
632 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
634 @item Looking for volunteers
636 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
637 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
641 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
643 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
644 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
645 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
646 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
647 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
649 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
650 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
651 library documentation.
653 We have some special needs (read them <a
654 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
655 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
656 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
657 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
659 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
660 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
661 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
664 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
665 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
666 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
669 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
671 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
672 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
673 assignment in the C# language.
675 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
678 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
679 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
680 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
682 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
683 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
684 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
686 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
687 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
688 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
690 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
693 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
694 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
695 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
697 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
699 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
700 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
701 your sources for the <a
702 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
703 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
705 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
706 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
707 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
708 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
709 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
711 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
713 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
714 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
716 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
717 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
718 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
719 associated web service tools.
721 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
723 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
725 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
726 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
728 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
729 has been translated as well.
731 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
733 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
734 now landed on the CVS repository.
736 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
737 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
738 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
739 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
742 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
743 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
744 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
748 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
749 available online, from young director <a
750 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
751 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
754 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
755 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
757 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
758 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
759 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
760 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
762 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
763 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
764 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
768 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
769 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
770 compiler and the Mono runtime.
772 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
773 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
774 from the source code it is compiling.
776 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
777 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
778 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
782 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
783 The resulting image contained errors though.
785 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
786 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
788 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
789 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
790 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
792 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
793 run the compiler on Linux.
795 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
796 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
798 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
799 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
800 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
802 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
803 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
806 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
807 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
808 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
810 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
811 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
812 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
813 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
814 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
815 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
816 code is cross platform.
820 Ajay was the first to notice <a
821 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
822 Mono's first birthday</a>.
824 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
826 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
827 * A complete CLI implementation:
829 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
830 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
832 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
833 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
834 * 92,000 lines of C code.
835 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
836 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
837 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
838 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
839 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
842 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
843 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
844 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
845 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
846 been possible without every contribution.
848 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
849 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
851 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
852 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
853 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
854 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
855 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
856 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
857 to integrate with other object systems.
859 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
860 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
861 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
864 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
865 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
866 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
867 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
872 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
875 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
876 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
877 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
878 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
879 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
880 applications like these in the near future.
882 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
883 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
884 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
885 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
886 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
887 architecture independent layer.
889 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
890 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
891 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
892 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
893 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
894 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
895 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
896 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
897 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
900 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
901 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
906 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
907 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
908 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
910 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
911 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
913 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
914 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
915 applications with it. Details are <a
916 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
918 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
922 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
923 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
924 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
925 being defined at that point to perform compares).
927 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
928 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
929 our resulting corlib.
931 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
933 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
934 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
935 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
936 now a good development tool.
938 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
939 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
940 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
941 bindings, that should simplify application development.
943 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
944 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
948 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
949 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
950 to promote free software is going very well.
952 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
954 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
955 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
957 On Monday Piers Haken <a
958 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
959 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
960 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
962 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
963 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
964 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
965 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
966 This means for example that any process can check on the
967 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
969 Of course, those interested
970 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
975 Duncan has written a few sample <a
976 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
978 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
980 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
982 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
983 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
985 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
990 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
991 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
993 Also, we are getting close to
994 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
995 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
996 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
998 Steam is picking up in <a
999 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
1000 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
1001 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
1002 libraries, which is nice to see.
1006 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
1007 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
1008 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
1010 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
1011 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
1012 match the Microsoft implementation.
1016 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
1017 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
1020 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
1021 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
1026 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
1027 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1031 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1032 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1035 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1036 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1037 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1041 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1045 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1046 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1047 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1048 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1050 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1051 been checked into CVS.
1053 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1054 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1056 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1057 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1058 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1062 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1063 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1064 that process this data.
1066 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1067 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1071 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1072 System.Data class library.
1077 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1078 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1080 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1081 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1082 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1083 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1087 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1088 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1089 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1090 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1094 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1095 it is possible to get <a
1096 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1097 number</a> information on stack traces.
1101 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1102 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1103 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1105 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1106 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1108 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1109 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1111 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1112 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1114 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1115 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1117 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1121 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1123 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1128 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1129 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1130 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1132 You can find more information
1133 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1135 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1136 and others for these bits.
1140 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1141 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1142 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1143 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1144 should make it easier to use and compile.
1146 This is another milestone for our <a
1147 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1149 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1153 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1154 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1155 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1157 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1158 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1159 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1160 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1161 expose to applications.
1164 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1165 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1166 support</a>, Mike <a
1167 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1172 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1173 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1177 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1178 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1179 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1181 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1186 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1187 fixes and more classes are included.
1189 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1190 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1191 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1195 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1196 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1197 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1201 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1203 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1208 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1210 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1211 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1212 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1214 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1217 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1218 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1219 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1220 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1221 exceptions work). Check <a
1222 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1225 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1226 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1228 Early this week Patrik started the string
1229 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1230 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1232 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1233 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1235 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1236 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1239 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1240 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1241 together are very powerful.
1243 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1244 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1250 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1251 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1253 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1254 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1259 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1260 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1262 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1263 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1264 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1268 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1269 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1270 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1271 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1275 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1276 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1277 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1282 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1283 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1284 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1289 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1292 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1293 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1294 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1298 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1299 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1300 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1304 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1305 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1308 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1309 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1310 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1311 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1316 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1317 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1318 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1319 debugging information).
1321 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1322 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1324 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1325 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1326 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1328 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1329 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1332 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1333 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1334 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1336 Remember to post your bug reports.
1338 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1339 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1340 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1341 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1345 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1346 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1347 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1349 A release will follow up shortly.
1353 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1354 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1359 MCS compiles on Linux!
1361 Today Paolo got the <a
1362 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1363 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1364 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1365 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1366 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1367 speed was improved in 400%
1369 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1371 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1372 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1376 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>
1378 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1379 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1380 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1382 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1383 revamped regression test suite.
1385 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1386 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1388 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1389 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>
1393 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1398 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1399 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1400 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1402 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1406 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1407 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1408 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1409 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1411 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1412 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1413 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1417 Paolo posted a list of <a
1418 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1419 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1420 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1425 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1429 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1431 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1435 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1437 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1438 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1439 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1442 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1443 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1444 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1448 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1449 Self hosting is closer every day.
1451 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1455 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1457 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1459 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1460 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1461 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1462 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1464 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1465 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1466 you will get one of the machines.
1470 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1474 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1475 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1476 this with the --share-code command line option.
1478 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1481 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1485 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1487 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1488 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1489 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1490 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1491 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1493 Miguel is off to the <a
1494 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1498 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1500 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1501 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1504 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1505 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1506 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1510 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1511 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1514 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1515 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1518 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1519 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1520 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1521 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1523 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1524 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1525 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1528 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1529 a set of web server classes for <a
1530 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1531 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1534 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1535 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1539 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1540 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1541 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1546 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1547 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1551 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1553 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1554 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1556 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1557 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1558 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1559 set of the Perl regex engine).
1563 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1565 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1567 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1568 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1570 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1571 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1574 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1578 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1579 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1580 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1581 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1585 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1586 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1587 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1589 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1590 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1591 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1595 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1596 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1597 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1599 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1600 non-Windows platforms.
1602 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1603 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1604 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1605 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1610 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1611 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1612 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1613 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1618 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1619 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1620 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1623 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1624 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1629 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1630 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1631 year, new direction</i></a>.
1633 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1634 System.Windows.Forms.
1638 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1639 development of the compiler with itself.
1641 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1642 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1643 on Linux before the end of the month.
1645 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1646 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1647 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1651 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1652 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1653 being fixed quickly.
1655 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1659 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1661 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1663 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1664 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1666 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1667 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1672 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1673 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1675 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1676 implementation is there.
1680 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1681 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1682 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1683 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1684 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1685 reduce spills and reloads.
1687 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1688 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1689 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1690 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1692 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1694 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1695 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1700 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1701 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1702 Climent for helping to set this up.
1706 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1709 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1712 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1716 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1717 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1719 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1720 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1723 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1725 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1730 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1731 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1732 on Gtk# development.
1738 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1739 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1740 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1741 program is executed.
1743 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1744 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1747 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1748 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1749 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1751 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1752 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1753 made up of 40 tests).
1755 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1756 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1757 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1759 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1760 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1762 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1763 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1766 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1767 replace our interpreter in production.
1773 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1774 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1776 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1778 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1784 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1786 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1792 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1799 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1800 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1801 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1803 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1806 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1808 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1809 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1810 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1811 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1812 important piece of the puzzle.
1818 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1820 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1823 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1824 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1830 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1831 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1832 the array handling support.
1838 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1841 Some large recent developments:
1843 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1844 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1845 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1847 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1848 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1849 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1851 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1852 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1853 optimize foreach for the array case).
1855 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1856 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1857 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1858 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1859 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1860 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1861 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1862 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1864 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1865 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1871 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1872 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1873 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1875 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1876 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1877 recent C# compiler progress.
1883 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1884 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1890 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1891 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1893 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1894 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1895 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1896 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1898 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1905 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1906 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1908 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1910 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1911 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1918 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1919 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1920 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1921 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1923 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1924 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1925 basically focusing on completeness now.
1932 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1933 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1939 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1940 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1941 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1942 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1943 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1944 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1945 handled correctly (Miguel).
1951 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1952 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1953 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1954 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1955 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1961 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1962 Mono</a> to other architectures.
1968 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1969 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1970 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1971 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1977 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1978 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1979 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1980 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1982 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1988 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1989 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1996 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1997 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1999 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
2006 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
2007 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
2013 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
2014 will let you run it.
2016 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
2017 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
2019 Good work Mono team!
2025 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
2026 are available here: <a
2027 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2033 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2035 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2036 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2042 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2043 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2044 without access to the <a
2045 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>
2051 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2052 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2058 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2059 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2060 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2066 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2067 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2068 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2074 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2075 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2076 get the new class libraries from <a
2077 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2083 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2084 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2085 get the new class libraries from <a
2086 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2092 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2093 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2094 get the new class libraries from <a
2095 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2097 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2099 Got Sean's new Class
2100 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2101 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2107 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2108 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2109 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2116 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2118 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2124 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2125 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2126 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2138 Brian posted a story on <a
2139 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>