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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
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
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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 3rd, 2002: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
96 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
97 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
98 improved this to use implicit names as well.
100 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
101 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
102 per-thread basis now.
104 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
105 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
106 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
107 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
108 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
110 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
111 statements on the grammar.
113 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
114 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
116 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
119 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
120 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
121 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
122 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
124 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
125 and its available from our <a
126 href="download.html">download</a> page.
128 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
130 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
132 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
133 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
134 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
136 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
137 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
138 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
139 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
140 asp.net has been released as well.
142 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
144 This release also includes a new exception handling system
145 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
146 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
148 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
150 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
151 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
152 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
153 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
156 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
157 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
158 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
160 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
163 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
166 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
167 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
168 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
169 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
171 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
172 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
173 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
174 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
175 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
176 server on Unix using Mono.
178 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
179 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
180 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
181 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
183 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
184 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
185 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
186 new test application that people can use to test their
187 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
188 you can participate in the <a
189 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
192 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
193 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
195 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
198 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
199 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
201 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
202 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
203 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
204 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
206 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
208 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
209 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
211 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
212 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
214 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
215 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
216 new technology are <a
217 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
218 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
220 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
221 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
222 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
224 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
225 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
228 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
229 see Windows screenshots for it <a
230 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
231 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
233 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
236 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
237 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
239 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
240 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
241 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
243 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
245 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
246 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
249 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
251 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
252 in Open Office file format.
254 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
256 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
257 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
259 Tim Coleman posted an <a
260 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
261 on the improvements in the System.Data
263 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
264 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
266 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
268 Tim's SqlClient is <a
269 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
270 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
271 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
272 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
274 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
276 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
277 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
278 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
279 been working on the Security classes.
281 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
282 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
283 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
284 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
286 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
287 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
289 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
292 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
293 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
295 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
297 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
300 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
301 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
302 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
303 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
304 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
305 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
307 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
308 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
309 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
310 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
311 list</a> mailing list.
313 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
314 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
315 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
316 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
317 data adapter is also coming soon.
319 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
321 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
322 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
323 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
324 are not supported by the .NET framework.
326 Last week we created a new <a
327 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
328 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
330 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
331 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
334 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
336 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
337 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
338 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
339 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
340 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
341 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
342 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
343 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
344 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
345 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
347 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
348 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
349 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
350 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
351 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
352 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
353 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
354 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
357 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
359 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
360 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
361 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
363 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
364 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
366 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
367 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
368 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
369 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
370 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
371 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
372 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
374 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
375 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
376 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
377 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
378 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
381 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
382 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
383 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
384 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
385 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
386 Documentation Tools</a>.
388 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
390 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
391 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
392 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
393 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
395 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
396 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
397 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
398 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
399 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
400 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
401 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
402 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
403 configuration file `machine.config'.
405 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
407 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
409 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
410 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
411 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
414 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
415 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
416 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
417 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
418 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
420 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
422 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
423 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
425 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
426 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
427 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
428 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
429 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
430 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
433 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
435 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
436 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
437 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
439 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
440 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
441 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
442 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
445 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
447 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
448 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
451 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
453 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
454 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
455 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
458 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
459 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
460 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
461 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
462 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
463 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
466 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
468 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
469 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
470 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
471 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
472 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
473 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
475 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
476 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
477 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
479 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
480 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
481 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
482 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
483 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
484 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
485 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
486 on making a good UI in the future.
488 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
489 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
490 This is the substrate for implementing the
491 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
493 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
494 classes implementation.
496 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
497 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
498 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
499 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
500 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
503 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
506 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
507 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
508 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
509 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
510 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
511 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
512 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
513 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
515 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
518 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
519 announced an Apache module that hosts
520 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
521 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
524 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
526 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
527 released a fresh version of <a
528 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
529 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
531 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
533 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
534 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
535 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
537 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
539 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
540 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
541 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
544 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
545 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
548 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
550 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
551 on par with the PPC port.
553 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
554 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
555 code for the remoting infrastructure.
557 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
558 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
561 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
563 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
564 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
565 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
566 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
568 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
569 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
570 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
571 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
573 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
574 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
575 for structure marshaling.
577 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
578 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
579 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
580 to integrate with Patrik's code.
582 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
583 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
584 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
586 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
589 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
591 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
592 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
593 a successful free software project.
595 The first, deserved, entry goes to
596 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
597 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
598 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
599 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
601 @item Looking for volunteers
603 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
604 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
608 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
610 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
611 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
612 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
613 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
614 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
616 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
617 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
618 library documentation.
620 We have some special needs (read them <a
621 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
622 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
623 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
624 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
626 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
627 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
628 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
631 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
632 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
633 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
636 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
638 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
639 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
640 assignment in the C# language.
642 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
645 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
646 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
647 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
649 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
650 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
651 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
653 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
654 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
655 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
657 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
660 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
661 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
662 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
664 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
666 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
667 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
668 your sources for the <a
669 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
670 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
672 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
673 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
674 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
675 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
676 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
678 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
680 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
681 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
683 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
684 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
685 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
686 associated web service tools.
688 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
690 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
692 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
693 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
695 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
696 has been translated as well.
698 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
700 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
701 now landed on the CVS repository.
703 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
704 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
705 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
706 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
709 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
710 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
711 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
715 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
716 available online, from young director <a
717 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
718 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
721 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
722 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
724 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
725 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
726 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
727 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
729 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
730 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
731 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
735 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
736 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
737 compiler and the Mono runtime.
739 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
740 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
741 from the source code it is compiling.
743 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
744 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
745 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
749 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
750 The resulting image contained errors though.
752 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
753 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
755 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
756 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
757 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
759 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
760 run the compiler on Linux.
762 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
763 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
765 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
766 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
767 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
769 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
770 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
773 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
774 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
775 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
777 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
778 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
779 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
780 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
781 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
782 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
783 code is cross platform.
787 Ajay was the first to notice <a
788 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
789 Mono's first birthday</a>.
791 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
793 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
794 * A complete CLI implementation:
796 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
797 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
799 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
800 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
801 * 92,000 lines of C code.
802 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
803 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
804 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
805 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
806 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
809 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
810 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
811 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
812 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
813 been possible without every contribution.
815 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
816 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
818 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
819 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
820 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
821 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
822 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
823 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
824 to integrate with other object systems.
826 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
827 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
828 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
831 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
832 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
833 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
834 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
839 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
842 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
843 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
844 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
845 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
846 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
847 applications like these in the near future.
849 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
850 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
851 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
852 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
853 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
854 architecture independent layer.
856 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
857 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
858 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
859 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
860 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
861 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
862 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
863 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
864 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
867 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
868 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
873 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
874 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
875 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
877 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
878 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
880 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
881 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
882 applications with it. Details are <a
883 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
885 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
889 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
890 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
891 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
892 being defined at that point to perform compares).
894 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
895 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
896 our resulting corlib.
898 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
900 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
901 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
902 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
903 now a good development tool.
905 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
906 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
907 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
908 bindings, that should simplify application development.
910 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
911 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
915 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
916 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
917 to promote free software is going very well.
919 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
921 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
922 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
924 On Monday Piers Haken <a
925 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
926 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
927 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
929 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
930 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
931 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
932 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
933 This means for example that any process can check on the
934 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
936 Of course, those interested
937 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
942 Duncan has written a few sample <a
943 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
945 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
947 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
949 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
950 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
952 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
957 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
958 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
960 Also, we are getting close to
961 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
962 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
963 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
965 Steam is picking up in <a
966 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
967 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
968 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
969 libraries, which is nice to see.
973 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
974 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
975 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
977 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
978 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
979 match the Microsoft implementation.
983 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
984 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
987 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
988 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
993 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
994 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
998 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
999 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1002 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1003 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1004 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1008 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1012 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1013 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1014 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1015 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1017 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1018 been checked into CVS.
1020 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1021 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1023 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1024 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1025 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1029 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1030 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1031 that process this data.
1033 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1034 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1038 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1039 System.Data class library.
1044 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1045 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1047 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1048 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1049 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1050 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1054 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1055 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1056 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1057 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1061 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1062 it is possible to get <a
1063 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1064 number</a> information on stack traces.
1068 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1069 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1070 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1072 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1073 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1075 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1076 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1078 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1079 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1081 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1082 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1084 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1088 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1090 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1095 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1096 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1097 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1099 You can find more information
1100 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1102 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1103 and others for these bits.
1107 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1108 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1109 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1110 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1111 should make it easier to use and compile.
1113 This is another milestone for our <a
1114 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1116 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1120 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1121 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1122 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1124 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1125 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1126 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1127 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1128 expose to applications.
1131 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1132 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1133 support</a>, Mike <a
1134 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1139 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1140 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1144 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1145 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1146 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1148 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1153 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1154 fixes and more classes are included.
1156 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1157 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1158 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1162 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1163 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1164 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1168 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1170 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1175 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1177 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1178 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1179 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1181 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1184 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1185 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1186 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1187 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1188 exceptions work). Check <a
1189 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1192 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1193 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1195 Early this week Patrik started the string
1196 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1197 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1199 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1200 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1202 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1203 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1206 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1207 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1208 together are very powerful.
1210 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1211 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1217 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1218 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1220 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1221 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1226 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1227 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1229 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1230 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1231 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1235 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1236 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1237 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1238 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1242 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1243 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1244 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1249 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1250 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1251 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1256 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1259 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1260 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1261 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1265 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1266 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1267 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1271 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1272 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1275 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1276 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1277 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1278 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1283 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1284 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1285 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1286 debugging information).
1288 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1289 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1291 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1292 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1293 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1295 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1296 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1299 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1300 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1301 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1303 Remember to post your bug reports.
1305 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1306 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1307 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1308 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1312 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1313 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1314 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1316 A release will follow up shortly.
1320 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1321 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1326 MCS compiles on Linux!
1328 Today Paolo got the <a
1329 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1330 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1331 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1332 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1333 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1334 speed was improved in 400%
1336 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1338 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1339 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1343 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>
1345 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1346 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1347 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1349 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1350 revamped regression test suite.
1352 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1353 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1355 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1356 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>
1360 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1365 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1366 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1367 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1369 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1373 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1374 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1375 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1376 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1378 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1379 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1380 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1384 Paolo posted a list of <a
1385 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1386 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1387 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1392 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1396 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1398 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1402 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1404 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1405 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1406 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1409 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1410 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1411 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1415 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1416 Self hosting is closer every day.
1418 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1422 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1424 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1426 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1427 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1428 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1429 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1431 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1432 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1433 you will get one of the machines.
1437 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1441 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1442 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1443 this with the --share-code command line option.
1445 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1448 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1452 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1454 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1455 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1456 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1457 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1458 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1460 Miguel is off to the <a
1461 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1465 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1467 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1468 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1471 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1472 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1473 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1477 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1478 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1481 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1482 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1485 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1486 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1487 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1488 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1490 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1491 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1492 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1495 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1496 a set of web server classes for <a
1497 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1498 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1501 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1502 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1506 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1507 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1508 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1513 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1514 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1518 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1520 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1521 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1523 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1524 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1525 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1526 set of the Perl regex engine).
1530 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1532 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1534 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1535 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1537 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1538 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1541 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1545 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1546 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1547 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1548 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1552 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1553 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1554 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1556 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1557 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1558 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1562 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1563 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1564 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1566 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1567 non-Windows platforms.
1569 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1570 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1571 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1572 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1577 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1578 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1579 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1580 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1585 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1586 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1587 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1590 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1591 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1596 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1597 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1598 year, new direction</i></a>.
1600 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1601 System.Windows.Forms.
1605 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1606 development of the compiler with itself.
1608 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1609 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1610 on Linux before the end of the month.
1612 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1613 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1614 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1618 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1619 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1620 being fixed quickly.
1622 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1626 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1628 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1630 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1631 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1633 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1634 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1639 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1640 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1642 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1643 implementation is there.
1647 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1648 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1649 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1650 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1651 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1652 reduce spills and reloads.
1654 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1655 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1656 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1657 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1659 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1661 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1662 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1667 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1668 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1669 Climent for helping to set this up.
1673 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1676 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1679 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1683 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1684 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1686 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1687 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1690 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1692 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1697 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1698 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1699 on Gtk# development.
1705 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1706 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1707 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1708 program is executed.
1710 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1711 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1714 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1715 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1716 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1718 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1719 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1720 made up of 40 tests).
1722 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1723 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1724 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1726 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1727 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1729 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1730 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1733 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1734 replace our interpreter in production.
1740 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1741 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1743 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1745 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1751 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1753 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1759 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1766 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1767 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1768 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1770 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1773 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1775 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1776 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1777 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1778 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1779 important piece of the puzzle.
1785 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1787 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1790 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1791 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1797 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1798 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1799 the array handling support.
1805 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1808 Some large recent developments:
1810 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1811 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1812 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1814 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1815 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1816 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1818 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1819 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1820 optimize foreach for the array case).
1822 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1823 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1824 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1825 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1826 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1827 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1828 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1829 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1831 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1832 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1838 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1839 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1840 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1842 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1843 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1844 recent C# compiler progress.
1850 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1851 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1857 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1858 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1860 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1861 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1862 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1863 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1865 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1872 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1873 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1875 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1877 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1878 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1885 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1886 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1887 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1888 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1890 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1891 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1892 basically focusing on completeness now.
1899 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1900 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1906 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1907 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1908 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1909 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1910 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1911 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1912 handled correctly (Miguel).
1918 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1919 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1920 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1921 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1922 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1928 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1929 Mono</a> to other architectures.
1935 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1936 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1937 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1938 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1944 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1945 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1946 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1947 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1949 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1955 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1956 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1963 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1964 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1966 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1973 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1974 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1980 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1981 will let you run it.
1983 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
1984 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1986 Good work Mono team!
1992 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1993 are available here: <a
1994 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2000 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2002 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2003 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2009 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2010 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2011 without access to the <a
2012 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>
2018 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2019 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2025 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2026 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2027 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2033 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2034 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2035 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2041 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2042 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2043 get the new class libraries from <a
2044 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2050 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2051 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2052 get the new class libraries from <a
2053 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2059 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2060 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2061 get the new class libraries from <a
2062 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2064 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2066 Got Sean's new Class
2067 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2068 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2074 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2075 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2076 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2083 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2085 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2091 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2092 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2093 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2105 Brian posted a story on <a
2106 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>