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7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
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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 (the CLR) and a set of <a
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37 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
40 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
58 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
59 In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
64 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
67 Corlib is self hosting.
75 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
85 <b>Valencia</b>: August 8th.
87 <b>Hong Kong:</b> August 10th. If you live in Hong
88 Kong, come see Duncan Mak talk about the Mono project.
90 href="http://linux.org.hk/org/event/200208-talk/">here</a>
92 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
94 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
96 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
97 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
98 a successful free software project.
100 The first, deserved, entry goes to
101 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
102 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
103 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
104 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
106 @item Looking for volunteers
108 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
109 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
113 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
115 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
116 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
117 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
118 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
119 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
121 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
122 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
123 library documentation.
125 We have some special needs (read them <a
126 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
127 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
128 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
129 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
131 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
132 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
133 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
136 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
137 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
138 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
141 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
143 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
144 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
145 assignment in the C# language.
147 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
150 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
151 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
152 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
154 Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
155 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
156 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
158 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
159 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
160 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
162 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
165 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
166 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
167 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
169 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
171 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
172 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
173 your sources for the <a
174 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
175 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
177 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
178 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
179 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
180 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
181 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
183 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
185 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
186 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
188 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
189 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
190 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
191 associated web service tools.
193 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
195 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
197 A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
198 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
200 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
201 has been translated as well.
203 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
205 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
206 now landed on the CVS repository.
208 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
209 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
210 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
211 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
214 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
215 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
216 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
220 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
221 available online, from young director <a
222 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
223 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
226 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
227 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
229 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
230 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
231 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
232 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
234 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
235 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
236 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
240 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
241 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
242 compiler and the Mono runtime.
244 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
245 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
246 from the source code it is compiling.
248 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
249 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
250 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
254 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
255 The resulting image contained errors though.
257 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
258 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
260 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
261 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
262 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
264 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
265 run the compiler on Linux.
267 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
268 compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
270 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
271 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
272 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
274 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
275 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
278 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
279 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
280 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
282 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
283 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
284 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
285 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
286 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
287 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
288 code is cross platform.
292 Ajay was the first to notice <a
293 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
294 Mono's first birthday</a>.
296 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
298 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
299 * A complete CLI implementation:
301 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
302 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
304 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
305 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
306 * 92,000 lines of C code.
307 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
308 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
309 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
310 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
311 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
314 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
315 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
316 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
317 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
318 been possible without every contribution.
320 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
321 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
323 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
324 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
325 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
326 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
327 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
328 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
329 to integrate with other object systems.
331 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
332 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
333 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
336 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
337 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
338 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
339 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
344 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
347 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
348 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
349 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
350 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
351 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
352 applications like these in the near future.
354 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
355 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
356 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
357 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
358 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
359 architecture independent layer.
361 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
362 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
363 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
364 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
365 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
366 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
367 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
368 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
369 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
372 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
373 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
378 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
379 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
380 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
382 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
383 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
385 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
386 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
387 applications with it. Details are <a
388 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
390 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
394 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
395 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
396 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
397 being defined at that point to perform compares).
399 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
400 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
401 our resulting corlib.
403 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
405 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
406 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
407 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
408 now a good development tool.
410 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
411 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
412 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
413 bindings, that should simplify application development.
415 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
416 Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
420 I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
421 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
422 to promote free software is going very well.
424 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
426 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
427 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
429 On Monday Piers Haken <a
430 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
431 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
432 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
434 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
435 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
436 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
437 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
438 This means for example that any process can check on the
439 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
441 Of course, those interested
442 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
447 Duncan has written a few sample <a
448 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
450 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
452 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
454 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
455 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
457 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
462 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
463 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
465 Also, we are getting close to
466 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
467 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
468 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
470 Steam is picking up in <a
471 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
472 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
473 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
474 libraries, which is nice to see.
478 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
479 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
480 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
482 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
483 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
484 match the Microsoft implementation.
488 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
489 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
492 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
493 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
498 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
499 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
503 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
504 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
507 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
508 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
509 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
513 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
517 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
518 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
519 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
520 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
522 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
523 been checked into CVS.
525 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
526 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
528 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
529 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
530 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
534 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
535 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
536 that process this data.
538 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
539 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
543 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
544 System.Data class library.
549 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
550 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
552 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
553 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
554 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
555 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
559 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
560 on the Mono runtime. This <a
561 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
562 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
566 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
567 it is possible to get <a
568 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
569 number</a> information on stack traces.
573 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
574 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
575 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
577 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
578 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
580 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
581 compiling most of our regression test suite.
583 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
584 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
586 The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
587 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
589 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
593 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
595 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
600 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
601 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
602 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
604 You can find more information
605 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
607 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
608 and others for these bits.
612 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
613 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
614 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
615 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
616 should make it easier to use and compile.
618 This is another milestone for our <a
619 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
621 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
625 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
626 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
627 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
629 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
630 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
631 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
632 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
633 expose to applications.
636 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
637 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
639 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
644 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
645 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
649 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
650 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
651 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
653 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
658 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
659 fixes and more classes are included.
661 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
662 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
663 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
667 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
668 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
669 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
673 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
675 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
680 Some updates from the hacking lines:
682 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
683 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
684 is part of the ASP.NET support.
686 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
689 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
690 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
691 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
692 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
693 exceptions work). Check <a
694 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
697 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
698 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
700 Early this week Patrik started the string
701 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
702 constructors and deployed the new layout.
704 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
705 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
707 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
708 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
711 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
712 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
713 together are very powerful.
715 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
716 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
722 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
723 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
725 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
726 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
731 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
732 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
734 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
735 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
736 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
740 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
741 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
742 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
743 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
747 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
748 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
749 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
754 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
755 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
756 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
761 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
764 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
765 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
766 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
770 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
771 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
772 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
776 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
777 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
780 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
781 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
782 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
783 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
788 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
789 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
790 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
791 debugging information).
793 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
794 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
796 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
797 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
798 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
800 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
801 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
804 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
805 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
806 us to run the compiler on Linux.
808 Remember to post your bug reports.
810 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
811 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
812 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
813 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
817 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
818 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
819 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
821 A release will follow up shortly.
825 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
826 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
831 MCS compiles on Linux!
833 Today Paolo got the <a
834 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
835 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
836 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
837 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
838 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
839 speed was improved in 400%
841 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
843 Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
844 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
848 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>
850 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
851 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
852 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
854 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
855 revamped regression test suite.
857 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
858 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
860 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
861 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>
865 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
870 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
871 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
872 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
874 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
878 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
879 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
880 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
881 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
883 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
884 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
885 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
889 Paolo posted a list of <a
890 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
891 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
892 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
897 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
901 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
903 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
907 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
909 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
910 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
911 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
914 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
915 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
916 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
920 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
921 Self hosting is closer every day.
923 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
927 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
929 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
931 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
932 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
933 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
934 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
936 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
937 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
938 you will get one of the machines.
942 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
946 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
947 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
948 this with the --share-code command line option.
950 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
953 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
957 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
959 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
960 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
961 comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
962 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
963 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
965 Miguel is off to the <a
966 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
970 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
972 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
973 been packaged for your download pleasure.
976 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
977 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
978 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
982 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
983 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
986 An explanation of the relationship between <a
987 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
990 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
991 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
992 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
993 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
995 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
996 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
997 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1000 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1001 a set of web server classes for <a
1002 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1003 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1006 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1007 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1011 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1012 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1013 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1018 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1019 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1023 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1025 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1026 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1028 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1029 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1030 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1031 set of the Perl regex engine).
1035 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1037 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1039 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1040 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1042 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1043 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1046 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1050 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1051 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1052 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1053 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1057 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1058 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1059 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1061 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1062 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1063 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1067 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1068 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1069 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1071 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1072 non-Windows platforms.
1074 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1075 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1076 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1077 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1082 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1083 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1084 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1085 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1090 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1091 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1092 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1095 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1096 compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
1101 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1102 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1103 year, new direction</i></a>.
1105 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1106 System.Windows.Forms.
1110 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1111 development of the compiler with itself.
1113 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1114 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1115 on Linux before the end of the month.
1117 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1118 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1119 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1123 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1124 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1125 being fixed quickly.
1127 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1131 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1133 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1135 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1136 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1138 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1139 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1144 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1145 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1147 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1148 implementation is there.
1152 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1153 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1154 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1155 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1156 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1157 reduce spills and reloads.
1159 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1160 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1161 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1162 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1164 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1166 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1167 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1172 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1173 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1174 Climent for helping to set this up.
1178 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1181 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1184 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1188 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1189 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1191 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1192 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1195 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1197 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1202 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1203 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1204 on Gtk# development.
1210 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1211 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1212 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1213 program is executed.
1215 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1216 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1219 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1220 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1221 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1223 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1224 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1225 made up of 40 tests).
1227 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1228 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1229 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1231 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1232 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1234 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1235 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1238 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1239 replace our interpreter in production.
1245 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1246 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1248 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1250 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1256 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1258 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1264 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1271 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1272 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1273 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1275 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
1278 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1280 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1281 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1282 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1283 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1284 important piece of the puzzle.
1290 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1292 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
1295 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1296 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1302 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
1303 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1304 the array handling support.
1310 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
1313 Some large recent developments:
1315 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1316 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1317 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1319 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1320 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1321 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1323 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1324 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1325 optimize foreach for the array case).
1327 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1328 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1329 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1330 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1331 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1332 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1333 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1334 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1336 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1337 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1343 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1344 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1345 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1347 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1348 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1349 recent C# compiler progress.
1355 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1356 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1362 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1363 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1365 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1366 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1367 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1368 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1370 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1377 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1378 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1380 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1382 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1383 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1390 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1391 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1392 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1393 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1395 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1396 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1397 basically focusing on completeness now.
1404 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1405 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1411 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1412 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1413 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1414 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1415 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1416 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1417 handled correctly (Miguel).
1423 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1424 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1425 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1426 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1427 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1433 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1434 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
1440 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1441 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1442 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1443 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1449 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1450 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1451 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1452 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1454 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1460 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1461 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1468 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1469 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1471 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1478 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1479 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1485 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1486 will let you run it.
1488 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
1489 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1491 Good work Mono team!
1497 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1498 are available here: <a
1499 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1505 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1507 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1508 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1514 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1515 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1516 without access to the <a
1517 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>
1523 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1524 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1530 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1531 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1532 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1538 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1539 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1540 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1546 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1547 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1548 get the new class libraries from <a
1549 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1555 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1556 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1557 get the new class libraries from <a
1558 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1564 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1565 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1566 get the new class libraries from <a
1567 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1569 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1571 Got Sean's new Class
1572 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1573 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1579 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1580 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1581 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1588 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1590 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1596 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1597 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1598 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1610 Brian posted a story on <a
1611 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>