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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>
93 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
94 ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
97 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
99 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
100 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
103 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
105 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
106 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
107 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
110 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
111 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
112 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
113 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
114 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
115 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
118 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
120 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
121 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
122 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
123 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
124 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
125 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
127 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
128 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
129 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
131 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
132 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
133 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
134 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
135 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
136 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
137 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
138 on making a good UI in the future.
140 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
141 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
142 This is the substrate for implementing the
143 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
145 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
146 classes implemetation.
148 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
149 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
150 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
151 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
152 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
155 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
158 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
159 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
160 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
161 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
162 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
163 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
164 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
165 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
167 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
170 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
171 announced an Apache module that hosts
172 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
173 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
176 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
178 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
179 released a fresh version of <a
180 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
181 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
183 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
185 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
186 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
187 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
189 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
191 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
192 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
193 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
196 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
197 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
200 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
202 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
203 on par with the PPC port.
205 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
206 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
207 code for the remoting infrastructure.
209 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
210 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
213 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
215 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
216 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
217 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
218 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
220 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
221 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
222 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
223 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
225 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
226 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
227 for structure marshaling.
229 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
230 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
231 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
232 to integrate with Patrik's code.
234 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
235 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
236 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
238 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
241 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
243 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
244 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
245 a successful free software project.
247 The first, deserved, entry goes to
248 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
249 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
250 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
251 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
253 @item Looking for volunteers
255 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
256 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
260 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
262 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
263 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
264 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
265 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
266 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
268 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
269 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
270 library documentation.
272 We have some special needs (read them <a
273 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
274 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
275 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
276 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
278 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
279 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
280 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
283 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
284 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
285 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
288 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
290 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
291 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
292 assignment in the C# language.
294 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
297 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
298 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
299 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
301 Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
302 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
303 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
305 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
306 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
307 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
309 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
312 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
313 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
314 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
316 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
318 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
319 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
320 your sources for the <a
321 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
322 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
324 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
325 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
326 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
327 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
328 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
330 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
332 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
333 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
335 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
336 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
337 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
338 associated web service tools.
340 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
342 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
344 A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
345 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
347 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
348 has been translated as well.
350 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
352 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
353 now landed on the CVS repository.
355 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
356 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
357 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
358 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
361 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
362 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
363 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
367 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
368 available online, from young director <a
369 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
370 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
373 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
374 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
376 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
377 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
378 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
379 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
381 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
382 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
383 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
387 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
388 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
389 compiler and the Mono runtime.
391 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
392 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
393 from the source code it is compiling.
395 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
396 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
397 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
401 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
402 The resulting image contained errors though.
404 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
405 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
407 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
408 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
409 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
411 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
412 run the compiler on Linux.
414 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
415 compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
417 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
418 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
419 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
421 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
422 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
425 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
426 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
427 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
429 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
430 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
431 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
432 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
433 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
434 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
435 code is cross platform.
439 Ajay was the first to notice <a
440 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
441 Mono's first birthday</a>.
443 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
445 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
446 * A complete CLI implementation:
448 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
449 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
451 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
452 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
453 * 92,000 lines of C code.
454 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
455 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
456 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
457 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
458 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
461 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
462 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
463 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
464 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
465 been possible without every contribution.
467 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
468 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
470 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
471 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
472 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
473 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
474 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
475 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
476 to integrate with other object systems.
478 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
479 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
480 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
483 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
484 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
485 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
486 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
491 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
494 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
495 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
496 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
497 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
498 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
499 applications like these in the near future.
501 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
502 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
503 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
504 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
505 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
506 architecture independent layer.
508 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
509 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
510 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
511 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
512 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
513 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
514 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
515 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
516 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
519 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
520 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
525 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
526 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
527 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
529 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
530 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
532 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
533 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
534 applications with it. Details are <a
535 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
537 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
541 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
542 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
543 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
544 being defined at that point to perform compares).
546 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
547 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
548 our resulting corlib.
550 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
552 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
553 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
554 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
555 now a good development tool.
557 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
558 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
559 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
560 bindings, that should simplify application development.
562 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
563 Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
567 I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
568 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
569 to promote free software is going very well.
571 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
573 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
574 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
576 On Monday Piers Haken <a
577 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
578 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
579 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
581 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
582 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
583 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
584 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
585 This means for example that any process can check on the
586 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
588 Of course, those interested
589 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
594 Duncan has written a few sample <a
595 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
597 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
599 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
601 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
602 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
604 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
609 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
610 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
612 Also, we are getting close to
613 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
614 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
615 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
617 Steam is picking up in <a
618 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
619 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
620 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
621 libraries, which is nice to see.
625 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
626 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
627 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
629 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
630 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
631 match the Microsoft implementation.
635 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
636 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
639 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
640 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
645 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
646 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
650 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
651 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
654 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
655 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
656 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
660 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
664 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
665 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
666 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
667 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
669 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
670 been checked into CVS.
672 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
673 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
675 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
676 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
677 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
681 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
682 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
683 that process this data.
685 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
686 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
690 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
691 System.Data class library.
696 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
697 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
699 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
700 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
701 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
702 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
706 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
707 on the Mono runtime. This <a
708 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
709 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
713 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
714 it is possible to get <a
715 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
716 number</a> information on stack traces.
720 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
721 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
722 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
724 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
725 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
727 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
728 compiling most of our regression test suite.
730 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
731 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
733 The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
734 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
736 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
740 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
742 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
747 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
748 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
749 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
751 You can find more information
752 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
754 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
755 and others for these bits.
759 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
760 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
761 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
762 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
763 should make it easier to use and compile.
765 This is another milestone for our <a
766 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
768 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
772 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
773 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
774 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
776 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
777 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
778 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
779 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
780 expose to applications.
783 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
784 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
786 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
791 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
792 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
796 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
797 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
798 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
800 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
805 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
806 fixes and more classes are included.
808 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
809 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
810 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
814 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
815 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
816 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
820 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
822 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
827 Some updates from the hacking lines:
829 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
830 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
831 is part of the ASP.NET support.
833 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
836 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
837 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
838 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
839 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
840 exceptions work). Check <a
841 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
844 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
845 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
847 Early this week Patrik started the string
848 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
849 constructors and deployed the new layout.
851 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
852 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
854 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
855 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
858 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
859 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
860 together are very powerful.
862 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
863 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
869 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
870 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
872 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
873 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
878 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
879 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
881 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
882 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
883 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
887 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
888 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
889 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
890 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
894 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
895 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
896 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
901 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
902 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
903 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
908 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
911 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
912 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
913 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
917 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
918 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
919 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
923 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
924 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
927 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
928 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
929 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
930 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
935 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
936 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
937 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
938 debugging information).
940 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
941 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
943 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
944 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
945 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
947 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
948 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
951 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
952 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
953 us to run the compiler on Linux.
955 Remember to post your bug reports.
957 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
958 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
959 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
960 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
964 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
965 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
966 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
968 A release will follow up shortly.
972 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
973 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
978 MCS compiles on Linux!
980 Today Paolo got the <a
981 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
982 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
983 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
984 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
985 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
986 speed was improved in 400%
988 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
990 Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
991 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
995 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>
997 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
998 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
999 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1001 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1002 revamped regression test suite.
1004 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1005 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1007 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1008 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>
1012 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1017 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1018 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1019 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1021 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1025 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1026 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1027 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1028 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1030 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1031 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1032 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1036 Paolo posted a list of <a
1037 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1038 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1039 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1044 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1048 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1050 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1054 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1056 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1057 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1058 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1061 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1062 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1063 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1067 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1068 Self hosting is closer every day.
1070 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1074 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1076 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1078 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1079 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1080 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1081 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1083 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1084 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1085 you will get one of the machines.
1089 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1093 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1094 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1095 this with the --share-code command line option.
1097 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1100 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1104 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1106 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1107 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1108 comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1109 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1110 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1112 Miguel is off to the <a
1113 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1117 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1119 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1120 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1123 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1124 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1125 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1129 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1130 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1133 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1134 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1137 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1138 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1139 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1140 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1142 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1143 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1144 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1147 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1148 a set of web server classes for <a
1149 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1150 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1153 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1154 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1158 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1159 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1160 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1165 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1166 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1170 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1172 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1173 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1175 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1176 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1177 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1178 set of the Perl regex engine).
1182 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1184 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1186 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1187 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1189 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1190 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1193 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1197 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1198 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1199 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1200 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1204 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1205 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1206 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1208 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1209 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1210 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1214 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1215 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1216 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1218 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1219 non-Windows platforms.
1221 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1222 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1223 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1224 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1229 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1230 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1231 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1232 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1237 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1238 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1239 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1242 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1243 compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
1248 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1249 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1250 year, new direction</i></a>.
1252 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1253 System.Windows.Forms.
1257 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1258 development of the compiler with itself.
1260 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1261 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1262 on Linux before the end of the month.
1264 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1265 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1266 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1270 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1271 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1272 being fixed quickly.
1274 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1278 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1280 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1282 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1283 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1285 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1286 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1291 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1292 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1294 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1295 implementation is there.
1299 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1300 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1301 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1302 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1303 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1304 reduce spills and reloads.
1306 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1307 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1308 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1309 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1311 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1313 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1314 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1319 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1320 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1321 Climent for helping to set this up.
1325 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1328 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1331 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1335 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1336 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1338 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1339 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1342 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1344 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1349 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1350 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1351 on Gtk# development.
1357 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1358 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1359 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1360 program is executed.
1362 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1363 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1366 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1367 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1368 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1370 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1371 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1372 made up of 40 tests).
1374 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1375 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1376 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1378 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1379 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1381 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1382 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1385 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1386 replace our interpreter in production.
1392 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1393 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1395 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1397 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1403 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1405 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1411 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1418 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1419 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1420 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1422 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
1425 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1427 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1428 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1429 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1430 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1431 important piece of the puzzle.
1437 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1439 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
1442 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1443 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1449 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
1450 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1451 the array handling support.
1457 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
1460 Some large recent developments:
1462 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1463 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1464 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1466 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1467 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1468 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1470 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1471 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1472 optimize foreach for the array case).
1474 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1475 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1476 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1477 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1478 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1479 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1480 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1481 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1483 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1484 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1490 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1491 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1492 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1494 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1495 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1496 recent C# compiler progress.
1502 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1503 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1509 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1510 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1512 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1513 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1514 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1515 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1517 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1524 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1525 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1527 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1529 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1530 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1537 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1538 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1539 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1540 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1542 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1543 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1544 basically focusing on completeness now.
1551 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1552 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1558 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1559 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1560 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1561 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1562 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1563 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1564 handled correctly (Miguel).
1570 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1571 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1572 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1573 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1574 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1580 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1581 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
1587 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1588 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1589 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1590 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1596 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1597 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1598 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1599 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1601 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1607 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1608 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1615 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1616 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1618 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1625 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1626 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1632 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1633 will let you run it.
1635 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
1636 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1638 Good work Mono team!
1644 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1645 are available here: <a
1646 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1652 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1654 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1655 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1661 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1662 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1663 without access to the <a
1664 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>
1670 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1671 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1677 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1678 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1679 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1685 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1686 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1687 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1693 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1694 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1695 get the new class libraries from <a
1696 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1702 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1703 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1704 get the new class libraries from <a
1705 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1711 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1712 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1713 get the new class libraries from <a
1714 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1716 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1718 Got Sean's new Class
1719 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1720 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1726 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1727 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1728 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1735 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1737 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1743 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1744 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1745 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1757 Brian posted a story on <a
1758 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>