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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 refered as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
15 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
16 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
17 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
18 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
20 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
21 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
22 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
23 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
27 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
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30 You can contact the team at: <a
31 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
37 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
42 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
45 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
63 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
70 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
73 Corlib is self hosting.
81 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
93 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
94 ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
97 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
99 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
100 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
101 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
102 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
103 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
104 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
106 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
107 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
108 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
110 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
111 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
112 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
113 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
114 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
115 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
116 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
117 on making a good UI in the future.
119 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
120 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
121 This is the substrate for implementing the
122 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
124 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
125 classes implemetation.
127 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
128 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
129 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
130 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
131 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
134 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
137 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
138 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
139 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
140 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
141 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
142 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
143 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
144 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
146 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
149 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
150 announced an Apache module that hosts
151 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
152 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
155 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
157 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
158 released a fresh version of <a
159 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
160 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
162 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
164 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
165 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
166 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
168 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
170 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
171 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
172 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
175 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
176 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
179 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
181 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
182 on par with the PPC port.
184 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
185 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
186 code for the remoting infrastructure.
188 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
189 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
192 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
194 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
195 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
196 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
197 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
199 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
200 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
201 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
202 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
204 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
205 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
206 for structure marshaling.
208 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
209 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
210 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
211 to integrate with Patrik's code.
213 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
214 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
215 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
217 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
220 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
222 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
223 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
224 a successful free software project.
226 The first, deserved, entry goes to
227 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
228 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
229 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
230 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
232 @item Looking for volunteers
234 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
235 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
239 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
241 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
242 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
243 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
244 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
245 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
247 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
248 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
249 library documentation.
251 We have some special needs (read them <a
252 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
253 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
254 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
255 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
257 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
258 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
259 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
262 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
263 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
264 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
267 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
269 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
270 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
271 assignment in the C# language.
273 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
276 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
277 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
278 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
280 Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
281 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
282 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
284 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
285 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
286 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
288 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
291 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
292 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
293 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
295 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
297 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
298 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
299 your sources for the <a
300 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
301 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
303 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
304 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
305 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
306 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
307 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
309 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
311 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
312 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
314 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
315 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
316 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
317 associated web service tools.
319 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
321 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
323 A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
324 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
326 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
327 has been translated as well.
329 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
331 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
332 now landed on the CVS repository.
334 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
335 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
336 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
337 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
340 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
341 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
342 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
346 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
347 available online, from young director <a
348 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
349 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
352 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
353 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
355 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
356 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
357 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
358 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
360 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
361 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
362 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
366 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
367 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
368 compiler and the Mono runtime.
370 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
371 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
372 from the source code it is compiling.
374 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
375 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
376 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
380 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
381 The resulting image contained errors though.
383 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
384 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
386 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
387 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
388 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
390 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
391 run the compiler on Linux.
393 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
394 compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
396 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
397 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
398 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
400 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
401 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
404 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
405 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
406 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
408 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
409 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
410 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
411 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
412 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
413 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
414 code is cross platform.
418 Ajay was the first to notice <a
419 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
420 Mono's first birthday</a>.
422 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
424 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
425 * A complete CLI implementation:
427 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
428 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
430 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
431 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
432 * 92,000 lines of C code.
433 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
434 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
435 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
436 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
437 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
440 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
441 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
442 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
443 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
444 been possible without every contribution.
446 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
447 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
449 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
450 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
451 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
452 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
453 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
454 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
455 to integrate with other object systems.
457 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
458 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
459 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
462 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
463 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
464 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
465 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
470 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
473 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
474 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
475 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
476 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
477 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
478 applications like these in the near future.
480 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
481 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
482 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
483 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
484 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
485 architecture independent layer.
487 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
488 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
489 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
490 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
491 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
492 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
493 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
494 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
495 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
498 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
499 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
504 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
505 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
506 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
508 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
509 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
511 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
512 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
513 applications with it. Details are <a
514 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
516 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
520 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
521 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
522 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
523 being defined at that point to perform compares).
525 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
526 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
527 our resulting corlib.
529 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
531 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
532 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
533 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
534 now a good development tool.
536 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
537 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
538 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
539 bindings, that should simplify application development.
541 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
542 Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
546 I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
547 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
548 to promote free software is going very well.
550 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
552 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
553 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
555 On Monday Piers Haken <a
556 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
557 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
558 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
560 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
561 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
562 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
563 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
564 This means for example that any process can check on the
565 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
567 Of course, those interested
568 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
573 Duncan has written a few sample <a
574 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
576 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
578 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
580 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
581 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
583 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
588 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
589 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
591 Also, we are getting close to
592 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
593 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
594 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
596 Steam is picking up in <a
597 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
598 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
599 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
600 libraries, which is nice to see.
604 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
605 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
606 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
608 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
609 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
610 match the Microsoft implementation.
614 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
615 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
618 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
619 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
624 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
625 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
629 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
630 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
633 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
634 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
635 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
639 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
643 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
644 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
645 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
646 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
648 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
649 been checked into CVS.
651 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
652 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
654 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
655 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
656 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
660 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
661 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
662 that process this data.
664 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
665 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
669 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
670 System.Data class library.
675 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
676 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
678 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
679 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
680 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
681 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
685 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
686 on the Mono runtime. This <a
687 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
688 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
692 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
693 it is possible to get <a
694 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
695 number</a> information on stack traces.
699 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
700 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
701 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
703 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
704 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
706 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
707 compiling most of our regression test suite.
709 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
710 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
712 The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
713 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
715 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
719 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
721 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
726 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
727 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
728 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
730 You can find more information
731 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
733 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
734 and others for these bits.
738 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
739 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
740 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
741 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
742 should make it easier to use and compile.
744 This is another milestone for our <a
745 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
747 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
751 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
752 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
753 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
755 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
756 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
757 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
758 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
759 expose to applications.
762 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
763 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
765 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
770 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
771 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
775 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
776 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
777 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
779 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
784 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
785 fixes and more classes are included.
787 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
788 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
789 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
793 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
794 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
795 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
799 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
801 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
806 Some updates from the hacking lines:
808 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
809 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
810 is part of the ASP.NET support.
812 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
815 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
816 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
817 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
818 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
819 exceptions work). Check <a
820 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
823 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
824 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
826 Early this week Patrik started the string
827 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
828 constructors and deployed the new layout.
830 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
831 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
833 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
834 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
837 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
838 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
839 together are very powerful.
841 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
842 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
848 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
849 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
851 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
852 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
857 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
858 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
860 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
861 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
862 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
866 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
867 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
868 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
869 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
873 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
874 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
875 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
880 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
881 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
882 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
887 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
890 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
891 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
892 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
896 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
897 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
898 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
902 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
903 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
906 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
907 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
908 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
909 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
914 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
915 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
916 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
917 debugging information).
919 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
920 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
922 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
923 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
924 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
926 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
927 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
930 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
931 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
932 us to run the compiler on Linux.
934 Remember to post your bug reports.
936 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
937 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
938 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
939 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
943 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
944 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
945 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
947 A release will follow up shortly.
951 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
952 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
957 MCS compiles on Linux!
959 Today Paolo got the <a
960 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
961 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
962 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
963 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
964 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
965 speed was improved in 400%
967 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
969 Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
970 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
974 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>
976 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
977 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
978 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
980 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
981 revamped regression test suite.
983 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
984 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
986 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
987 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>
991 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
996 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
997 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
998 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1000 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1004 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1005 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1006 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1007 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1009 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1010 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1011 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1015 Paolo posted a list of <a
1016 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1017 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1018 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1023 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1027 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1029 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1033 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1035 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1036 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1037 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1040 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1041 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1042 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1046 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1047 Self hosting is closer every day.
1049 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1053 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1055 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1057 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1058 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1059 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1060 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1062 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1063 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1064 you will get one of the machines.
1068 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1072 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1073 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1074 this with the --share-code command line option.
1076 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1079 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1083 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1085 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1086 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1087 comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1088 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1089 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1091 Miguel is off to the <a
1092 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1096 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1098 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1099 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1102 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1103 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1104 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1108 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1109 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1112 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1113 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1116 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1117 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1118 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1119 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1121 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1122 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1123 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1126 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1127 a set of web server classes for <a
1128 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1129 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1132 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1133 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1137 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1138 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1139 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1144 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1145 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1149 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1151 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1152 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1154 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1155 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1156 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1157 set of the Perl regex engine).
1161 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1163 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1165 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1166 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1168 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1169 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1172 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1176 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1177 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1178 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1179 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1183 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1184 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1185 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1187 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1188 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1189 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1193 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1194 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1195 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1197 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1198 non-Windows platforms.
1200 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1201 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1202 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1203 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1208 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1209 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1210 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1211 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1216 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1217 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1218 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1221 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1222 compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
1227 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1228 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1229 year, new direction</i></a>.
1231 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1232 System.Windows.Forms.
1236 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1237 development of the compiler with itself.
1239 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1240 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1241 on Linux before the end of the month.
1243 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1244 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1245 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1249 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1250 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1251 being fixed quickly.
1253 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1257 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1259 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1261 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1262 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1264 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1265 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1270 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1271 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1273 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1274 implementation is there.
1278 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1279 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1280 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1281 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1282 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1283 reduce spills and reloads.
1285 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1286 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1287 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1288 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1290 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1292 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1293 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1298 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1299 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1300 Climent for helping to set this up.
1304 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1307 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1310 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1314 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1315 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1317 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1318 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1321 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1323 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1328 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1329 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1330 on Gtk# development.
1336 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1337 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1338 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1339 program is executed.
1341 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1342 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1345 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1346 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1347 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1349 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1350 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1351 made up of 40 tests).
1353 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1354 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1355 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1357 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1358 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1360 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1361 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1364 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1365 replace our interpreter in production.
1371 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1372 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1374 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1376 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1382 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1384 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1390 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1397 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1398 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1399 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1401 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
1404 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1406 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1407 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1408 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1409 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1410 important piece of the puzzle.
1416 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1418 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
1421 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1422 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1428 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
1429 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1430 the array handling support.
1436 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
1439 Some large recent developments:
1441 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1442 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1443 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1445 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1446 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1447 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1449 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1450 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1451 optimize foreach for the array case).
1453 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1454 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1455 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1456 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1457 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1458 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1459 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1460 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1462 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1463 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1469 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1470 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1471 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1473 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1474 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1475 recent C# compiler progress.
1481 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1482 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1488 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1489 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1491 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1492 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1493 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1494 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1496 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1503 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1504 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1506 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1508 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1509 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1516 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1517 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1518 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1519 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1521 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1522 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1523 basically focusing on completeness now.
1530 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1531 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1537 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1538 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1539 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1540 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1541 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1542 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1543 handled correctly (Miguel).
1549 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1550 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1551 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1552 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1553 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1559 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1560 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
1566 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1567 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1568 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1569 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1575 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1576 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1577 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1578 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1580 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1586 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1587 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1594 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1595 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1597 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1604 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1605 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1611 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1612 will let you run it.
1614 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
1615 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1617 Good work Mono team!
1623 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1624 are available here: <a
1625 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1631 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1633 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1634 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1640 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1641 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1642 without access to the <a
1643 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>
1649 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1650 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1656 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1657 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1658 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1664 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1665 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1666 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1672 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1673 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1674 get the new class libraries from <a
1675 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1681 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1682 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1683 get the new class libraries from <a
1684 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1690 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1691 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1692 get the new class libraries from <a
1693 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1695 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1697 Got Sean's new Class
1698 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1699 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1705 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1706 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1707 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1714 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1716 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1722 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1723 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1724 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1736 Brian posted a story on <a
1737 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>