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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also refered as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
15 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
16 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
17 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
18 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
20 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
21 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
22 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
23 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
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30 You can contact the team at: <a
31 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
37 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
42 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
45 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
63 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
70 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
73 Corlib is self hosting.
81 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
89 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
92 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
93 announced an Apache module that hosts
94 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
95 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
98 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
100 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
101 released a fresh version of <a
102 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
103 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
105 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
107 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
108 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
109 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
111 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
113 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
114 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
115 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
118 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
119 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
122 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
124 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
125 on par with the PPC port.
127 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
128 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
129 code for the remoting infrastructure.
131 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
132 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
135 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
137 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
138 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
139 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
140 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
142 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
143 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
144 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
145 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
147 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
148 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
149 for structure marshaling.
151 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
152 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
153 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
154 to integrate with Patrik's code.
156 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
157 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
158 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
160 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
163 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
165 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
166 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
167 a successful free software project.
169 The first, deserved, entry goes to
170 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
171 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
172 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
173 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
175 @item Looking for volunteers
177 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
178 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
182 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
184 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
185 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
186 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
187 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
188 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
190 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
191 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
192 library documentation.
194 We have some special needs (read them <a
195 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
196 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
197 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
198 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
200 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
201 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
202 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
205 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
206 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
207 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
210 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
212 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
213 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
214 assignment in the C# language.
216 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
219 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
220 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
221 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
223 Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
224 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
225 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
227 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
228 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
229 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
231 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
234 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
235 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
236 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
238 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
240 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
241 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
242 your sources for the <a
243 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
244 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
246 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
247 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
248 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
249 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
250 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
252 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
254 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
255 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
257 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
258 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
259 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
260 associated web service tools.
262 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
264 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
266 A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
267 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
269 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
270 has been translated as well.
272 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
274 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
275 now landed on the CVS repository.
277 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
278 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
279 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
280 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
283 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
284 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
285 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
289 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
290 available online, from young director <a
291 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
292 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
295 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
296 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
298 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
299 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
300 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
301 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
303 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
304 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
305 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
309 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
310 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
311 compiler and the Mono runtime.
313 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
314 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
315 from the source code it is compiling.
317 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
318 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
319 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
323 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
324 The resulting image contained errors though.
326 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
327 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
329 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
330 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
331 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
333 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
334 run the compiler on Linux.
336 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
337 compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
339 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
340 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
341 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
343 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
344 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
347 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
348 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
349 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
351 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
352 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
353 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
354 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
355 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
356 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
357 code is cross platform.
361 Ajay was the first to notice <a
362 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
363 Mono's first birthday</a>.
365 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
367 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
368 * A complete CLI implementation:
370 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
371 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
373 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
374 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
375 * 92,000 lines of C code.
376 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
377 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
378 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
379 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
380 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
383 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
384 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
385 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
386 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
387 been possible without every contribution.
389 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
390 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
392 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
393 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
394 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
395 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
396 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
397 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
398 to integrate with other object systems.
400 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
401 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
402 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
405 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
406 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
407 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
408 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
413 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
416 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
417 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
418 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
419 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
420 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
421 applications like these in the near future.
423 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
424 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
425 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
426 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
427 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
428 architecture independent layer.
430 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
431 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
432 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
433 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
434 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
435 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
436 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
437 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
438 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
441 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
442 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
447 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
448 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
449 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
451 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
452 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
454 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
455 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
456 applications with it. Details are <a
457 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
459 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
463 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
464 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
465 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
466 being defined at that point to perform compares).
468 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
469 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
470 our resulting corlib.
472 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
474 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
475 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
476 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
477 now a good development tool.
479 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
480 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
481 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
482 bindings, that should simplify application development.
484 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
485 Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
489 I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
490 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
491 to promote free software is going very well.
493 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
495 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
496 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
498 On Monday Piers Haken <a
499 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
500 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
501 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
503 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
504 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
505 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
506 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
507 This means for example that any process can check on the
508 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
510 Of course, those interested
511 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
516 Duncan has written a few sample <a
517 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
519 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
521 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
523 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
524 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
526 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
531 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
532 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
534 Also, we are getting close to
535 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
536 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
537 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
539 Steam is picking up in <a
540 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
541 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
542 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
543 libraries, which is nice to see.
547 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
548 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
549 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
551 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
552 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
553 match the Microsoft implementation.
557 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
558 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
561 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
562 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
567 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
568 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
572 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
573 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
576 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
577 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
578 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
582 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
586 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
587 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
588 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
589 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
591 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
592 been checked into CVS.
594 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
595 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
597 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
598 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
599 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
603 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
604 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
605 that process this data.
607 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
608 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
612 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
613 System.Data class library.
618 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
619 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
621 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
622 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
623 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
624 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
628 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
629 on the Mono runtime. This <a
630 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
631 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
635 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
636 it is possible to get <a
637 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
638 number</a> information on stack traces.
642 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
643 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
644 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
646 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
647 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
649 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
650 compiling most of our regression test suite.
652 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
653 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
655 The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
656 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
658 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
662 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
664 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
669 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
670 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
671 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
673 You can find more information
674 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
676 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
677 and others for these bits.
681 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
682 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
683 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
684 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
685 should make it easier to use and compile.
687 This is another milestone for our <a
688 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
690 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
694 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
695 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
696 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
698 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
699 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
700 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
701 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
702 expose to applications.
705 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
706 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
708 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
713 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
714 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
718 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
719 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
720 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
722 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
727 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
728 fixes and more classes are included.
730 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
731 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
732 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
736 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
737 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
738 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
742 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
744 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
749 Some updates from the hacking lines:
751 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
752 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
753 is part of the ASP.NET support.
755 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
758 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
759 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
760 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
761 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
762 exceptions work). Check <a
763 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
766 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
767 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
769 Early this week Patrik started the string
770 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
771 constructors and deployed the new layout.
773 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
774 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
776 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
777 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
780 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
781 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
782 together are very powerful.
784 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
785 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
791 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
792 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
794 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
795 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
800 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
801 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
803 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
804 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
805 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
809 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
810 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
811 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
812 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
816 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
817 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
818 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
823 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
824 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
825 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
830 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
833 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
834 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
835 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
839 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
840 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
841 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
845 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
846 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
849 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
850 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
851 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
852 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
857 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
858 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
859 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
860 debugging information).
862 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
863 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
865 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
866 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
867 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
869 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
870 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
873 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
874 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
875 us to run the compiler on Linux.
877 Remember to post your bug reports.
879 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
880 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
881 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
882 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
886 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
887 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
888 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
890 A release will follow up shortly.
894 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
895 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
900 MCS compiles on Linux!
902 Today Paolo got the <a
903 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
904 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
905 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
906 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
907 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
908 speed was improved in 400%
910 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
912 Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
913 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
917 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>
919 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
920 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
921 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
923 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
924 revamped regression test suite.
926 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
927 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
929 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
930 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>
934 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
939 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
940 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
941 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
943 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
947 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
948 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
949 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
950 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
952 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
953 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
954 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
958 Paolo posted a list of <a
959 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
960 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
961 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
966 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
970 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
972 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
976 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
978 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
979 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
980 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
983 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
984 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
985 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
989 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
990 Self hosting is closer every day.
992 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
996 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
998 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1000 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1001 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1002 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1003 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1005 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1006 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1007 you will get one of the machines.
1011 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1015 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1016 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1017 this with the --share-code command line option.
1019 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1022 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1026 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1028 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1029 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1030 comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1031 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1032 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1034 Miguel is off to the <a
1035 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1039 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1041 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1042 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1045 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1046 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1047 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1051 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1052 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1055 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1056 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1059 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1060 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1061 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1062 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1064 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1065 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1066 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1069 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1070 a set of web server classes for <a
1071 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1072 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1075 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1076 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1080 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1081 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1082 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1087 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1088 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1092 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1094 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1095 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1097 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1098 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1099 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1100 set of the Perl regex engine).
1104 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1106 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1108 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1109 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1111 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1112 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1115 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1119 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1120 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1121 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1122 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1126 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1127 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1128 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1130 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1131 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1132 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1136 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1137 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1138 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1140 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1141 non-Windows platforms.
1143 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1144 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1145 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1146 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1151 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1152 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1153 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1154 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1159 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1160 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1161 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1164 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1165 compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
1170 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1171 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1172 year, new direction</i></a>.
1174 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1175 System.Windows.Forms.
1179 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1180 development of the compiler with itself.
1182 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1183 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1184 on Linux before the end of the month.
1186 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1187 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1188 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1192 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1193 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1194 being fixed quickly.
1196 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1200 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1202 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1204 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1205 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1207 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1208 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1213 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1214 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1216 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1217 implementation is there.
1221 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1222 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1223 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1224 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1225 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1226 reduce spills and reloads.
1228 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1229 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1230 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1231 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1233 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1235 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1236 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1241 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1242 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1243 Climent for helping to set this up.
1247 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1250 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1253 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1257 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1258 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1260 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1261 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1264 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1266 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1271 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1272 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1273 on Gtk# development.
1279 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1280 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1281 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1282 program is executed.
1284 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1285 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1288 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1289 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1290 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1292 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1293 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1294 made up of 40 tests).
1296 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1297 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1298 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1300 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1301 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1303 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1304 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1307 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1308 replace our interpreter in production.
1314 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1315 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1317 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1319 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1325 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1327 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1333 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1340 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1341 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1342 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1344 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
1347 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1349 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1350 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1351 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1352 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1353 important piece of the puzzle.
1359 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1361 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
1364 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1365 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1371 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
1372 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1373 the array handling support.
1379 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
1382 Some large recent developments:
1384 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1385 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1386 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1388 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1389 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1390 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1392 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1393 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1394 optimize foreach for the array case).
1396 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1397 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1398 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1399 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1400 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1401 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1402 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1403 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1405 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1406 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1412 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1413 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1414 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1416 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1417 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1418 recent C# compiler progress.
1424 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1425 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1431 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1432 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1434 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1435 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1436 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1437 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1439 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1446 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1447 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1449 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1451 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1452 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1459 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1460 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1461 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1462 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1464 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1465 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1466 basically focusing on completeness now.
1473 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1474 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1480 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1481 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1482 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1483 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1484 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1485 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1486 handled correctly (Miguel).
1492 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1493 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1494 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1495 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1496 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1502 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1503 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
1509 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1510 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1511 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1512 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1518 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1519 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1520 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1521 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1523 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1529 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1530 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1537 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1538 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1540 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1547 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1548 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1554 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1555 will let you run it.
1557 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
1558 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1560 Good work Mono team!
1566 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1567 are available here: <a
1568 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1574 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1576 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1577 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1583 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1584 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1585 without access to the <a
1586 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>
1592 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1593 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1599 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1600 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1601 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1607 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1608 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1609 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1615 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1616 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1617 get the new class libraries from <a
1618 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1624 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1625 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1626 get the new class libraries from <a
1627 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1633 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1634 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1635 get the new class libraries from <a
1636 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1638 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1640 Got Sean's new Class
1641 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1642 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1648 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1649 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1650 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1657 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1659 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1665 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1666 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1667 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1679 Brian posted a story on <a
1680 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>