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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
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35 You can contact the team at: <a
36 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
38 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
39 about the team members we have created the <a
40 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
41 Which archives can be found <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
48 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
53 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
56 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
74 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
81 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
84 All assemblies compile.
92 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
97 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
105 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
107 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
108 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
109 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
111 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
113 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
114 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
115 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
117 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
118 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
119 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
121 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
123 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
124 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
126 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
128 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
131 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
132 What do you think about Mono?
134 Is your company involved with the development and
135 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
136 important part of your company's business application
137 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
138 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
139 and the use of Linux in business critical
142 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
143 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
145 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
151 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
153 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
154 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
155 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
156 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
158 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
160 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
161 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
162 bug fix release. No new features.
164 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
166 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
167 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
170 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
171 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
173 Martin also announced a <a
174 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
175 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
177 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
179 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
180 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
181 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
184 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
185 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
186 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
187 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
188 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
191 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
193 A new mailing list for <a
194 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
195 Development</a> has been created.
197 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
199 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
200 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
202 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
204 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
205 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
206 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
208 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
209 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
210 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
212 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
213 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
214 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
216 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
217 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
219 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
221 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
222 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
223 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
224 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
225 and performance improvements.
228 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
230 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
231 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
232 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
234 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
236 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
237 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
238 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
240 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
241 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
242 how to complete this process <a
243 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
244 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
245 for further discussion.
247 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
249 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
250 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
251 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
252 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
253 straight binding to the C API.
256 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
257 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
260 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
261 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
263 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
265 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
266 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
267 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
268 advantage of Unix facilities.
270 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
272 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
273 If you want to contribute please read <a
274 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
277 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
278 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
279 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
280 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
281 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
282 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
283 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
285 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
287 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
288 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
289 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
291 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
294 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
295 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
297 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
299 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
301 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
302 World Expo. A description is <a
303 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
306 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
307 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
308 shipping that uses Mono.
310 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
312 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
313 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
314 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
315 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
316 and performance improvements.
318 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
319 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
320 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
321 progress on the documentation browser.
323 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
324 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
326 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
328 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
329 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
330 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
331 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
332 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
335 Details of the release are available in <a
336 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
338 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
339 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
340 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
341 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
344 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
346 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
348 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
349 distribution, and MCS works with it.
351 Zoltan has managed to get <a
352 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
353 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
356 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
358 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
359 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
360 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
362 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
364 A new issue of the <a
365 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
366 Weekly News</a> has been published.
368 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
369 that Sebastien has put together.
371 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
373 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
374 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
375 improved this to use implicit names as well.
377 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
378 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
379 per-thread basis now.
381 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
382 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
383 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
384 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
385 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
387 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
388 statements on the grammar.
390 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
391 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
393 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
395 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
396 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
397 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
400 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
401 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
402 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
404 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
405 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
406 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
407 of their product, also using Mono.
409 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
412 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
413 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
414 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
415 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
417 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
418 and its available from our <a
419 href="download.html">download</a> page.
421 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
423 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
425 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
426 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
427 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
429 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
430 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
431 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
432 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
433 asp.net has been released as well.
435 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
437 This release also includes a new exception handling system
438 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
439 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
441 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
443 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
444 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
445 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
446 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
449 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
450 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
451 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
453 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
456 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
459 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
460 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
461 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
462 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
464 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
465 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
466 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
467 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
468 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
469 server on Unix using Mono.
471 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
472 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
473 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
474 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
476 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
477 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
478 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
479 new test application that people can use to test their
480 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
481 you can participate in the <a
482 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
485 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
486 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
488 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
491 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
492 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
494 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
495 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
496 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
497 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
499 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
501 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
502 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
504 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
505 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
507 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
508 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
509 new technology are <a
510 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
511 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
513 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
514 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
515 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
517 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
518 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
521 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
522 see Windows screenshots for it <a
523 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
524 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
526 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
529 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
530 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
532 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
533 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
534 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
536 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
538 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
539 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
542 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
544 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
545 in Open Office file format.
547 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
549 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
550 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
552 Tim Coleman posted an <a
553 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
554 on the improvements in the System.Data
556 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
557 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
559 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
561 Tim's SqlClient is <a
562 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
563 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
564 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
565 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
567 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
569 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
570 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
571 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
572 been working on the Security classes.
574 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
575 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
576 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
577 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
579 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
580 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
582 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
585 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
586 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
588 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
590 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
593 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
594 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
595 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
596 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
597 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
598 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
600 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
601 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
602 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
603 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
604 list</a> mailing list.
606 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
607 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
608 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
609 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
610 data adapter is also coming soon.
612 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
614 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
615 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
616 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
617 are not supported by the .NET framework.
619 Last week we created a new <a
620 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
621 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
623 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
624 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
627 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
629 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
630 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
631 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
632 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
633 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
634 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
635 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
636 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
637 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
638 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
640 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
641 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
642 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
643 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
644 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
645 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
646 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
647 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
650 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
652 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
653 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
654 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
656 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
657 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
659 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
660 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
661 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
662 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
663 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
664 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
665 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
667 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
668 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
669 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
670 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
671 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
674 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
675 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
676 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
677 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
678 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
679 Documentation Tools</a>.
681 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
683 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
684 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
685 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
686 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
688 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
689 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
690 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
691 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
692 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
693 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
694 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
695 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
696 configuration file `machine.config'.
698 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
700 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
702 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
703 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
704 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
707 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
708 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
709 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
710 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
711 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
713 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
715 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
716 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
718 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
719 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
720 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
721 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
722 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
723 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
726 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
728 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
729 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
730 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
732 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
733 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
734 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
735 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
738 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
740 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
741 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
744 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
746 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
747 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
748 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
751 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
752 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
753 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
754 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
755 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
756 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
759 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
761 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
762 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
763 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
764 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
765 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
766 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
768 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
769 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
770 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
772 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
773 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
774 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
775 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
776 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
777 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
778 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
779 on making a good UI in the future.
781 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
782 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
783 This is the substrate for implementing the
784 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
786 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
787 classes implementation.
789 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
790 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
791 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
792 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
793 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
796 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
799 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
800 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
801 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
802 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
803 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
804 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
805 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
806 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
808 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
811 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
812 announced an Apache module that hosts
813 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
814 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
817 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
819 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
820 released a fresh version of <a
821 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
822 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
824 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
826 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
827 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
828 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
830 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
832 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
833 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
834 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
837 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
838 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
841 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
843 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
845 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
846 on par with the PPC port.
848 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
849 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
850 code for the remoting infrastructure.
852 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
853 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
856 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
858 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
859 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
860 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
861 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
863 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
864 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
865 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
866 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
868 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
869 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
870 for structure marshaling.
872 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
873 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
874 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
875 to integrate with Patrik's code.
877 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
878 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
879 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
881 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
884 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
886 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
887 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
888 a successful free software project.
890 The first, deserved, entry goes to
891 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
892 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
893 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
894 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
896 @item Looking for volunteers
898 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
899 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
903 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
905 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
906 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
907 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
908 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
909 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
911 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
912 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
913 library documentation.
915 We have some special needs (read them <a
916 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
917 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
918 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
919 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
921 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
922 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
923 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
926 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
927 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
928 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
931 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
933 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
934 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
935 assignment in the C# language.
937 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
940 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
941 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
942 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
944 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
945 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
946 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
948 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
949 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
950 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
952 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
955 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
956 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
957 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
959 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
961 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
962 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
963 your sources for the <a
964 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
965 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
967 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
968 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
969 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
970 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
971 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
973 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
975 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
976 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
978 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
979 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
980 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
981 associated web service tools.
983 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
985 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
987 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
988 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
990 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
991 has been translated as well.
993 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
995 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
996 now landed on the CVS repository.
998 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
999 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
1000 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
1001 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
1004 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
1005 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
1006 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
1008 @item Jul 17th, 2002
1010 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
1011 available online, from young director <a
1012 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
1013 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
1014 Monkey At Work"</a>.
1016 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
1017 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
1019 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
1020 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
1021 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
1022 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
1024 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
1025 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
1026 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
1028 @item Jul 16th, 2002
1030 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
1031 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
1032 compiler and the Mono runtime.
1034 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
1035 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
1036 from the source code it is compiling.
1038 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
1039 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
1040 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
1044 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
1045 The resulting image contained errors though.
1047 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
1048 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
1050 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
1051 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
1052 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
1054 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
1055 run the compiler on Linux.
1057 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
1058 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
1060 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
1061 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
1062 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
1064 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
1065 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
1068 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
1069 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
1070 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
1072 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
1073 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
1074 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
1075 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
1076 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
1077 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
1078 code is cross platform.
1082 Ajay was the first to notice <a
1083 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
1084 Mono's first birthday</a>.
1086 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
1088 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
1089 * A complete CLI implementation:
1091 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
1092 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
1094 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
1095 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
1096 * 92,000 lines of C code.
1097 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
1098 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
1099 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
1100 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
1101 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
1104 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
1105 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
1106 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
1107 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
1108 been possible without every contribution.
1110 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
1111 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
1113 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
1114 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
1115 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
1116 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
1117 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
1118 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
1119 to integrate with other object systems.
1121 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
1122 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
1123 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
1126 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
1127 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
1128 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
1129 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
1134 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
1137 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
1138 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
1139 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
1140 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
1141 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
1142 applications like these in the near future.
1144 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
1145 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
1146 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
1147 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
1148 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
1149 architecture independent layer.
1151 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
1152 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
1153 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
1154 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
1155 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
1156 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
1157 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
1158 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
1159 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
1162 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
1163 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
1168 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
1169 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
1170 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
1172 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
1173 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
1175 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
1176 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
1177 applications with it. Details are <a
1178 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
1180 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
1184 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
1185 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
1186 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
1187 being defined at that point to perform compares).
1189 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
1190 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
1191 our resulting corlib.
1193 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
1195 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
1196 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
1197 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
1198 now a good development tool.
1200 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
1201 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
1202 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
1203 bindings, that should simplify application development.
1205 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
1206 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
1210 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
1211 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
1212 to promote free software is going very well.
1214 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
1216 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
1217 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
1219 On Monday Piers Haken <a
1220 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
1221 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
1222 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
1224 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
1225 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
1226 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
1227 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
1228 This means for example that any process can check on the
1229 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
1231 Of course, those interested
1232 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
1237 Duncan has written a few sample <a
1238 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
1239 applications</a> (<a
1240 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
1242 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
1244 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
1245 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
1246 She also got some <a
1247 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
1252 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
1253 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
1255 Also, we are getting close to
1256 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
1257 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
1258 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
1260 Steam is picking up in <a
1261 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
1262 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
1263 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
1264 libraries, which is nice to see.
1268 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
1269 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
1270 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
1272 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
1273 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
1274 match the Microsoft implementation.
1278 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
1279 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
1282 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
1283 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
1288 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
1289 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1293 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1294 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1297 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1298 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1299 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1303 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1307 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1308 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1309 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1310 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1312 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1313 been checked into CVS.
1315 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1316 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1318 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1319 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1320 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1324 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1325 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1326 that process this data.
1328 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1329 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1333 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1334 System.Data class library.
1339 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1340 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1342 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1343 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1344 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1345 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1349 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1350 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1351 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1352 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1356 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1357 it is possible to get <a
1358 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1359 number</a> information on stack traces.
1363 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1364 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1365 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1367 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1368 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1370 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1371 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1373 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1374 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1376 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1377 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1379 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1383 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1385 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1390 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1391 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1392 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1394 You can find more information
1395 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1397 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1398 and others for these bits.
1402 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1403 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1404 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1405 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1406 should make it easier to use and compile.
1408 This is another milestone for our <a
1409 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1411 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1415 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1416 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1417 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1419 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1420 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1421 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1422 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1423 expose to applications.
1426 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1427 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1428 support</a>, Mike <a
1429 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1434 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1435 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1439 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1440 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1441 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1443 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1448 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1449 fixes and more classes are included.
1451 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1452 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1453 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1457 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1458 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1459 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1463 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1465 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1470 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1472 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1473 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1474 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1476 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1479 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1480 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1481 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1482 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1483 exceptions work). Check <a
1484 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1487 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1488 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1490 Early this week Patrik started the string
1491 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1492 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1494 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1495 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1497 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1498 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1501 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1502 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1503 together are very powerful.
1505 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1506 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1512 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1513 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1515 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1516 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1521 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1522 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1524 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1525 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1526 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1530 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1531 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1532 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1533 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1537 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1538 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1539 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1544 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1545 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1546 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1551 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1554 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1555 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1556 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1560 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1561 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1562 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1566 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1567 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1570 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1571 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1572 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1573 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1578 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1579 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1580 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1581 debugging information).
1583 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1584 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1586 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1587 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1588 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1590 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1591 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1594 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1595 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1596 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1598 Remember to post your bug reports.
1600 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1601 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1602 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1603 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1607 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1608 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1609 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1611 A release will follow up shortly.
1615 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1616 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1621 MCS compiles on Linux!
1623 Today Paolo got the <a
1624 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1625 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1626 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1627 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1628 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1629 speed was improved in 400%
1631 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1633 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1634 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1638 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>
1640 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1641 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1642 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1644 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1645 revamped regression test suite.
1647 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1648 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1650 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1651 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>
1655 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1660 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1661 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1662 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1664 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1668 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1669 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1670 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1671 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1673 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1674 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1675 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1679 Paolo posted a list of <a
1680 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1681 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1682 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1687 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1691 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1693 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1697 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1699 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1700 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1701 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1704 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1705 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1706 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1710 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1711 Self hosting is closer every day.
1713 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1717 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1719 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1721 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1722 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1723 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1724 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1726 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1727 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1728 you will get one of the machines.
1732 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1736 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1737 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1738 this with the --share-code command line option.
1740 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1743 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1747 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1749 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1750 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1751 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1752 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1753 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1755 Miguel is off to the <a
1756 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1760 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1762 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1763 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1766 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1767 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1768 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1772 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1773 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1776 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1777 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1780 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1781 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1782 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1783 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1785 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1786 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1787 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1790 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1791 a set of web server classes for <a
1792 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1793 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1796 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1797 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1801 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1802 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1803 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1808 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1809 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1813 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1815 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1816 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1818 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1819 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1820 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1821 set of the Perl regex engine).
1825 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1827 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1829 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1830 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1832 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1833 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1836 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1840 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1841 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1842 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1843 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1847 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1848 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1849 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1851 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1852 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1853 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1857 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1858 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1859 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1861 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1862 non-Windows platforms.
1864 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1865 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1866 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1867 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1872 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1873 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1874 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1875 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1880 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1881 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1882 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1885 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1886 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1891 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1892 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1893 year, new direction</i></a>.
1895 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1896 System.Windows.Forms.
1900 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1901 development of the compiler with itself.
1903 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1904 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1905 on Linux before the end of the month.
1907 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1908 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1909 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1913 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1914 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1915 being fixed quickly.
1917 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1921 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1923 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1925 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1926 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1928 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1929 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1934 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1935 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1937 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1938 implementation is there.
1942 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1943 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1944 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1945 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1946 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1947 reduce spills and reloads.
1949 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1950 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1951 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1952 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1954 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1956 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1957 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1962 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1963 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1964 Climent for helping to set this up.
1968 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1971 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1974 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1978 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1979 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1981 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1982 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1985 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1987 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1992 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1993 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1994 on Gtk# development.
2000 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
2001 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
2002 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
2003 program is executed.
2005 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
2006 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
2009 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
2010 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
2011 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
2013 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
2014 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
2015 made up of 40 tests).
2017 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
2018 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
2019 what Paolo has been working on lately).
2021 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
2022 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
2024 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
2025 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
2028 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
2029 replace our interpreter in production.
2035 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
2036 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
2038 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
2040 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
2046 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
2048 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
2054 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
2061 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
2062 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
2063 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
2065 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
2068 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
2070 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
2071 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
2072 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
2073 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
2074 important piece of the puzzle.
2080 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
2082 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
2085 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
2086 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
2092 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
2093 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
2094 the array handling support.
2100 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
2103 Some large recent developments:
2105 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
2106 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
2107 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
2109 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
2110 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
2111 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
2113 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
2114 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
2115 optimize foreach for the array case).
2117 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
2118 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
2119 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
2120 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
2121 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
2122 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
2123 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
2124 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
2126 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
2127 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
2133 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
2134 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
2135 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
2137 Ximian users around the world <!--a
2138 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
2139 recent C# compiler progress.
2145 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
2146 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
2152 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
2153 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
2155 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
2156 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
2157 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
2158 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
2160 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
2167 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
2168 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
2170 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
2172 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
2173 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
2180 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
2181 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
2182 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
2183 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
2185 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
2186 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
2187 basically focusing on completeness now.
2194 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
2195 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
2201 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
2202 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
2203 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
2204 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
2205 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
2206 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
2207 handled correctly (Miguel).
2213 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
2214 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
2215 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
2216 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
2217 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
2223 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
2224 Mono</a> to other architectures.
2230 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
2231 released (runtime engine, class libraries
2232 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
2233 0.7 announcement</a> for details
2239 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
2240 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
2241 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
2242 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
2244 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
2250 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
2251 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
2258 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
2259 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
2261 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
2268 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
2269 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
2275 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
2276 will let you run it.
2278 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
2279 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
2281 Good work Mono team!
2287 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
2288 are available here: <a
2289 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2295 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2297 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2298 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2304 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2305 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2306 without access to the <a
2307 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>
2313 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2314 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2320 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2321 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2322 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2328 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2329 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2330 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2336 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2337 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2338 get the new class libraries from <a
2339 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2345 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2346 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2347 get the new class libraries from <a
2348 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2354 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2355 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2356 get the new class libraries from <a
2357 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2359 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2361 Got Sean's new Class
2362 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2363 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2369 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2370 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2371 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2378 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2380 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2386 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2387 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2388 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2400 Brian posted a story on <a
2401 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>