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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also refered as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
15 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
16 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
17 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
18 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
20 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
21 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
22 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
23 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
27 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
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30 You can contact the team at: <a
31 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
37 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
42 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
45 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
63 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
70 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
73 Corlib is self hosting.
81 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
93 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
94 ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
97 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
100 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
101 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
102 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
103 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
104 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
105 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
106 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
107 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
109 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
112 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
113 announced an Apache module that hosts
114 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
115 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
118 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
120 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
121 released a fresh version of <a
122 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
123 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
125 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
127 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
128 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
129 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
131 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
133 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
134 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
135 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
138 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
139 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
142 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
144 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
145 on par with the PPC port.
147 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
148 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
149 code for the remoting infrastructure.
151 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
152 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
155 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
157 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
158 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
159 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
160 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
162 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
163 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
164 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
165 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
167 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
168 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
169 for structure marshaling.
171 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
172 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
173 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
174 to integrate with Patrik's code.
176 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
177 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
178 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
180 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
183 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
185 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
186 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
187 a successful free software project.
189 The first, deserved, entry goes to
190 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
191 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
192 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
193 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
195 @item Looking for volunteers
197 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
198 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
202 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
204 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
205 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
206 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
207 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
208 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
210 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
211 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
212 library documentation.
214 We have some special needs (read them <a
215 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
216 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
217 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
218 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
220 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
221 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
222 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
225 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
226 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
227 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
230 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
232 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
233 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
234 assignment in the C# language.
236 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
239 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
240 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
241 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
243 Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
244 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
245 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
247 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
248 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
249 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
251 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
254 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
255 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
256 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
258 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
260 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
261 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
262 your sources for the <a
263 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
264 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
266 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
267 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
268 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
269 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
270 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
272 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
274 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
275 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
277 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
278 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
279 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
280 associated web service tools.
282 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
284 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
286 A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
287 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
289 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
290 has been translated as well.
292 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
294 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
295 now landed on the CVS repository.
297 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
298 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
299 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
300 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
303 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
304 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
305 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
309 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
310 available online, from young director <a
311 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
312 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
315 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
316 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
318 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
319 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
320 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
321 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
323 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
324 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
325 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
329 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
330 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
331 compiler and the Mono runtime.
333 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
334 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
335 from the source code it is compiling.
337 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
338 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
339 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
343 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
344 The resulting image contained errors though.
346 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
347 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
349 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
350 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
351 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
353 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
354 run the compiler on Linux.
356 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
357 compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
359 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
360 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
361 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
363 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
364 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
367 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
368 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
369 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
371 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
372 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
373 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
374 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
375 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
376 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
377 code is cross platform.
381 Ajay was the first to notice <a
382 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
383 Mono's first birthday</a>.
385 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
387 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
388 * A complete CLI implementation:
390 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
391 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
393 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
394 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
395 * 92,000 lines of C code.
396 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
397 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
398 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
399 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
400 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
403 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
404 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
405 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
406 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
407 been possible without every contribution.
409 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
410 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
412 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
413 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
414 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
415 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
416 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
417 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
418 to integrate with other object systems.
420 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
421 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
422 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
425 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
426 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
427 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
428 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
433 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
436 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
437 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
438 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
439 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
440 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
441 applications like these in the near future.
443 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
444 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
445 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
446 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
447 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
448 architecture independent layer.
450 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
451 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
452 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
453 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
454 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
455 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
456 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
457 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
458 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
461 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
462 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
467 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
468 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
469 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
471 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
472 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
474 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
475 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
476 applications with it. Details are <a
477 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
479 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
483 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
484 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
485 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
486 being defined at that point to perform compares).
488 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
489 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
490 our resulting corlib.
492 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
494 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
495 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
496 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
497 now a good development tool.
499 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
500 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
501 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
502 bindings, that should simplify application development.
504 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
505 Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
509 I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
510 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
511 to promote free software is going very well.
513 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
515 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
516 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
518 On Monday Piers Haken <a
519 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
520 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
521 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
523 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
524 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
525 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
526 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
527 This means for example that any process can check on the
528 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
530 Of course, those interested
531 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
536 Duncan has written a few sample <a
537 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
539 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
541 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
543 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
544 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
546 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
551 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
552 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
554 Also, we are getting close to
555 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
556 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
557 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
559 Steam is picking up in <a
560 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
561 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
562 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
563 libraries, which is nice to see.
567 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
568 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
569 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
571 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
572 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
573 match the Microsoft implementation.
577 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
578 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
581 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
582 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
587 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
588 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
592 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
593 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
596 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
597 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
598 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
602 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
606 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
607 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
608 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
609 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
611 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
612 been checked into CVS.
614 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
615 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
617 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
618 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
619 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
623 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
624 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
625 that process this data.
627 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
628 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
632 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
633 System.Data class library.
638 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
639 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
641 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
642 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
643 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
644 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
648 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
649 on the Mono runtime. This <a
650 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
651 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
655 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
656 it is possible to get <a
657 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
658 number</a> information on stack traces.
662 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
663 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
664 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
666 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
667 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
669 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
670 compiling most of our regression test suite.
672 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
673 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
675 The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
676 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
678 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
682 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
684 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
689 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
690 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
691 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
693 You can find more information
694 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
696 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
697 and others for these bits.
701 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
702 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
703 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
704 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
705 should make it easier to use and compile.
707 This is another milestone for our <a
708 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
710 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
714 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
715 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
716 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
718 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
719 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
720 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
721 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
722 expose to applications.
725 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
726 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
728 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
733 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
734 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
738 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
739 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
740 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
742 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
747 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
748 fixes and more classes are included.
750 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
751 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
752 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
756 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
757 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
758 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
762 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
764 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
769 Some updates from the hacking lines:
771 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
772 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
773 is part of the ASP.NET support.
775 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
778 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
779 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
780 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
781 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
782 exceptions work). Check <a
783 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
786 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
787 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
789 Early this week Patrik started the string
790 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
791 constructors and deployed the new layout.
793 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
794 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
796 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
797 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
800 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
801 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
802 together are very powerful.
804 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
805 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
811 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
812 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
814 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
815 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
820 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
821 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
823 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
824 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
825 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
829 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
830 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
831 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
832 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
836 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
837 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
838 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
843 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
844 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
845 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
850 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
853 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
854 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
855 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
859 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
860 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
861 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
865 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
866 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
869 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
870 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
871 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
872 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
877 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
878 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
879 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
880 debugging information).
882 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
883 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
885 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
886 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
887 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
889 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
890 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
893 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
894 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
895 us to run the compiler on Linux.
897 Remember to post your bug reports.
899 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
900 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
901 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
902 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
906 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
907 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
908 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
910 A release will follow up shortly.
914 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
915 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
920 MCS compiles on Linux!
922 Today Paolo got the <a
923 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
924 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
925 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
926 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
927 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
928 speed was improved in 400%
930 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
932 Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
933 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
937 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>
939 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
940 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
941 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
943 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
944 revamped regression test suite.
946 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
947 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
949 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
950 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>
954 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
959 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
960 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
961 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
963 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
967 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
968 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
969 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
970 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
972 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
973 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
974 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
978 Paolo posted a list of <a
979 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
980 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
981 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
986 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
990 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
992 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
996 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
998 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
999 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1000 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1003 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1004 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1005 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1009 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1010 Self hosting is closer every day.
1012 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1016 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1018 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1020 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1021 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1022 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1023 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1025 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1026 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1027 you will get one of the machines.
1031 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1035 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1036 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1037 this with the --share-code command line option.
1039 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1042 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1046 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1048 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1049 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1050 comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1051 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1052 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1054 Miguel is off to the <a
1055 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1059 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1061 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1062 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1065 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1066 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1067 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1071 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1072 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1075 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1076 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1079 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1080 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1081 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1082 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1084 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1085 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1086 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1089 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1090 a set of web server classes for <a
1091 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1092 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1095 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1096 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1100 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1101 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1102 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1107 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1108 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1112 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1114 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1115 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1117 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1118 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1119 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1120 set of the Perl regex engine).
1124 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1126 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1128 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1129 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1131 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1132 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1135 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1139 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1140 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1141 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1142 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1146 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1147 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1148 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1150 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1151 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1152 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1156 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1157 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1158 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1160 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1161 non-Windows platforms.
1163 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1164 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1165 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1166 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1171 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1172 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1173 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1174 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1179 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1180 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1181 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1184 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1185 compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
1190 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1191 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1192 year, new direction</i></a>.
1194 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1195 System.Windows.Forms.
1199 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1200 development of the compiler with itself.
1202 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1203 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1204 on Linux before the end of the month.
1206 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1207 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1208 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1212 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1213 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1214 being fixed quickly.
1216 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1220 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1222 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1224 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1225 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1227 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1228 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1233 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1234 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1236 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1237 implementation is there.
1241 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1242 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1243 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1244 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1245 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1246 reduce spills and reloads.
1248 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1249 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1250 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1251 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1253 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1255 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1256 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1261 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1262 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1263 Climent for helping to set this up.
1267 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1270 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1273 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1277 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1278 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1280 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1281 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1284 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1286 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1291 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1292 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1293 on Gtk# development.
1299 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1300 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1301 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1302 program is executed.
1304 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1305 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1308 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1309 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1310 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1312 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1313 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1314 made up of 40 tests).
1316 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1317 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1318 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1320 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1321 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1323 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1324 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1327 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1328 replace our interpreter in production.
1334 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1335 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1337 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1339 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1345 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1347 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1353 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1360 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1361 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1362 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1364 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
1367 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1369 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1370 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1371 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1372 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1373 important piece of the puzzle.
1379 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1381 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
1384 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1385 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1391 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
1392 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1393 the array handling support.
1399 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
1402 Some large recent developments:
1404 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1405 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1406 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1408 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1409 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1410 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1412 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1413 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1414 optimize foreach for the array case).
1416 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1417 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1418 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1419 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1420 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1421 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1422 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1423 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1425 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1426 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1432 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1433 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1434 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1436 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1437 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1438 recent C# compiler progress.
1444 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1445 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1451 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1452 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1454 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1455 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1456 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1457 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1459 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1466 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1467 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1469 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1471 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1472 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1479 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1480 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1481 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1482 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1484 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1485 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1486 basically focusing on completeness now.
1493 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1494 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1500 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1501 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1502 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1503 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1504 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1505 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1506 handled correctly (Miguel).
1512 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1513 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1514 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1515 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1516 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1522 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1523 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
1529 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1530 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1531 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1532 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1538 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1539 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1540 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1541 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1543 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1549 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1550 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1557 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1558 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1560 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1567 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1568 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1574 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1575 will let you run it.
1577 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
1578 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1580 Good work Mono team!
1586 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1587 are available here: <a
1588 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1594 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1596 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1597 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1603 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1604 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1605 without access to the <a
1606 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>
1612 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1613 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1619 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1620 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1621 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1627 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1628 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1629 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1635 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1636 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1637 get the new class libraries from <a
1638 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1644 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1645 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1646 get the new class libraries from <a
1647 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1653 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1654 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1655 get the new class libraries from <a
1656 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1658 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1660 Got Sean's new Class
1661 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1662 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1668 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1669 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1670 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1677 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1679 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1685 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1686 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1687 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1699 Brian posted a story on <a
1700 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>