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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>.
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
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30 You can contact the team at: <a
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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, S390<br>
70 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
73 All assemblies compile.
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 Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390
99 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
100 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
102 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
104 Tim's SqlClient is <a
105 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
106 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
107 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
108 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
110 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
112 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
113 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
114 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
115 been working on the Security classes.
117 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
118 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
119 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
120 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
122 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
123 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
125 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
128 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
129 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
131 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
133 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
136 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
137 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
138 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
139 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
140 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
141 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
143 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
144 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
145 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
146 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
147 list</a> mailing list.
149 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
150 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
151 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
152 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
153 data adapter is also coming soon.
155 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
157 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
158 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
159 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
160 are not supported by the .NET framework.
162 Last week we created a new <a
163 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
164 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
166 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
167 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
170 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
172 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
173 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
174 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
175 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
176 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
177 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
178 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
179 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
180 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
181 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
183 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
184 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
185 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
186 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
187 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
188 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
189 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
190 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
193 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
195 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
196 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
197 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
199 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
200 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
202 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
203 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
204 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
205 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
206 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
207 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
208 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
210 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
211 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
212 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
213 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
214 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
217 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
218 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
219 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
220 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
221 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
222 Documentation Tools</a>.
224 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
226 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
227 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
228 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
229 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
231 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
232 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
233 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
234 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
235 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
236 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
237 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
238 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
239 configuration file `machine.config'.
241 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
243 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
245 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
246 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
247 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
250 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
251 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
252 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
253 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
254 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
256 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
258 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
259 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
261 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
262 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
263 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
264 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
265 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
266 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
269 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
271 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
272 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
273 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
275 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
276 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
277 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
278 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
281 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
283 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
284 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
287 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
289 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
290 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
291 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
294 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
295 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
296 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
297 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
298 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
299 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
302 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
304 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
305 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
306 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
307 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
308 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
309 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
311 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
312 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
313 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
315 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
316 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
317 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
318 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
319 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
320 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
321 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
322 on making a good UI in the future.
324 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
325 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
326 This is the substrate for implementing the
327 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
329 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
330 classes implementation.
332 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
333 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
334 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
335 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
336 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
339 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
342 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
343 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
344 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
345 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
346 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
347 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
348 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
349 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
351 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
354 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
355 announced an Apache module that hosts
356 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
357 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
360 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
362 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
363 released a fresh version of <a
364 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
365 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
367 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
369 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
370 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
371 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
373 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
375 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
376 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
377 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
380 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
381 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
384 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
386 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
387 on par with the PPC port.
389 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
390 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
391 code for the remoting infrastructure.
393 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
394 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
397 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
399 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
400 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
401 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
402 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
404 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
405 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
406 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
407 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
409 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
410 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
411 for structure marshaling.
413 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
414 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
415 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
416 to integrate with Patrik's code.
418 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
419 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
420 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
422 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
425 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
427 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
428 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
429 a successful free software project.
431 The first, deserved, entry goes to
432 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
433 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
434 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
435 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
437 @item Looking for volunteers
439 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
440 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
444 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
446 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
447 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
448 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
449 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
450 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
452 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
453 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
454 library documentation.
456 We have some special needs (read them <a
457 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
458 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
459 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
460 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
462 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
463 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
464 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
467 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
468 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
469 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
472 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
474 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
475 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
476 assignment in the C# language.
478 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
481 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
482 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
483 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
485 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
486 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
487 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
489 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
490 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
491 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
493 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
496 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
497 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
498 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
500 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
502 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
503 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
504 your sources for the <a
505 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
506 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
508 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
509 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
510 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
511 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
512 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
514 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
516 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
517 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
519 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
520 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
521 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
522 associated web service tools.
524 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
526 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
528 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
529 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
531 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
532 has been translated as well.
534 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
536 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
537 now landed on the CVS repository.
539 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
540 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
541 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
542 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
545 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
546 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
547 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
551 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
552 available online, from young director <a
553 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
554 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
557 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
558 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
560 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
561 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
562 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
563 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
565 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
566 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
567 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
571 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
572 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
573 compiler and the Mono runtime.
575 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
576 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
577 from the source code it is compiling.
579 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
580 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
581 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
585 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
586 The resulting image contained errors though.
588 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
589 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
591 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
592 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
593 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
595 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
596 run the compiler on Linux.
598 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
599 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
601 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
602 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
603 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
605 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
606 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
609 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
610 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
611 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
613 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
614 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
615 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
616 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
617 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
618 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
619 code is cross platform.
623 Ajay was the first to notice <a
624 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
625 Mono's first birthday</a>.
627 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
629 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
630 * A complete CLI implementation:
632 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
633 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
635 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
636 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
637 * 92,000 lines of C code.
638 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
639 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
640 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
641 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
642 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
645 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
646 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
647 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
648 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
649 been possible without every contribution.
651 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
652 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
654 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
655 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
656 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
657 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
658 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
659 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
660 to integrate with other object systems.
662 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
663 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
664 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
667 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
668 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
669 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
670 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
675 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
678 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
679 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
680 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
681 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
682 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
683 applications like these in the near future.
685 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
686 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
687 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
688 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
689 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
690 architecture independent layer.
692 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
693 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
694 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
695 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
696 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
697 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
698 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
699 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
700 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
703 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
704 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
709 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
710 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
711 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
713 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
714 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
716 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
717 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
718 applications with it. Details are <a
719 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
721 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
725 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
726 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
727 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
728 being defined at that point to perform compares).
730 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
731 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
732 our resulting corlib.
734 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
736 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
737 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
738 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
739 now a good development tool.
741 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
742 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
743 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
744 bindings, that should simplify application development.
746 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
747 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
751 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
752 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
753 to promote free software is going very well.
755 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
757 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
758 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
760 On Monday Piers Haken <a
761 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
762 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
763 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
765 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
766 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
767 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
768 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
769 This means for example that any process can check on the
770 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
772 Of course, those interested
773 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
778 Duncan has written a few sample <a
779 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
781 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
783 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
785 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
786 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
788 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
793 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
794 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
796 Also, we are getting close to
797 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
798 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
799 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
801 Steam is picking up in <a
802 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
803 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
804 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
805 libraries, which is nice to see.
809 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
810 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
811 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
813 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
814 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
815 match the Microsoft implementation.
819 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
820 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
823 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
824 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
829 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
830 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
834 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
835 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
838 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
839 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
840 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
844 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
848 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
849 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
850 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
851 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
853 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
854 been checked into CVS.
856 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
857 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
859 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
860 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
861 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
865 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
866 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
867 that process this data.
869 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
870 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
874 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
875 System.Data class library.
880 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
881 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
883 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
884 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
885 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
886 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
890 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
891 on the Mono runtime. This <a
892 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
893 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
897 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
898 it is possible to get <a
899 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
900 number</a> information on stack traces.
904 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
905 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
906 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
908 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
909 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
911 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
912 compiling most of our regression test suite.
914 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
915 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
917 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
918 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
920 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
924 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
926 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
931 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
932 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
933 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
935 You can find more information
936 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
938 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
939 and others for these bits.
943 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
944 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
945 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
946 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
947 should make it easier to use and compile.
949 This is another milestone for our <a
950 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
952 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
956 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
957 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
958 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
960 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
961 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
962 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
963 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
964 expose to applications.
967 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
968 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
970 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
975 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
976 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
980 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
981 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
982 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
984 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
989 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
990 fixes and more classes are included.
992 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
993 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
994 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
998 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
999 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1000 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1004 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1006 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1011 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1013 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1014 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1015 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1017 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1020 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1021 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1022 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1023 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1024 exceptions work). Check <a
1025 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1028 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1029 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1031 Early this week Patrik started the string
1032 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1033 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1035 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1036 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1038 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1039 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1042 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1043 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1044 together are very powerful.
1046 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1047 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1053 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1054 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1056 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1057 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1062 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1063 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1065 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1066 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1067 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1071 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1072 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1073 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1074 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1078 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1079 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1080 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1085 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1086 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1087 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1092 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1095 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1096 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1097 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1101 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1102 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1103 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1107 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1108 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1111 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1112 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1113 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1114 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1119 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1120 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1121 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1122 debugging information).
1124 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1125 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1127 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1128 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1129 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1131 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1132 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1135 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1136 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1137 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1139 Remember to post your bug reports.
1141 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1142 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1143 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1144 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1148 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1149 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1150 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1152 A release will follow up shortly.
1156 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1157 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1162 MCS compiles on Linux!
1164 Today Paolo got the <a
1165 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1166 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1167 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1168 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1169 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1170 speed was improved in 400%
1172 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1174 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1175 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1179 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>
1181 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1182 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1183 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1185 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1186 revamped regression test suite.
1188 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1189 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1191 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1192 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>
1196 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1201 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1202 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1203 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1205 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1209 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1210 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1211 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1212 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1214 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1215 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1216 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1220 Paolo posted a list of <a
1221 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1222 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1223 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1228 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1232 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1234 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1238 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1240 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1241 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1242 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1245 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1246 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1247 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1251 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1252 Self hosting is closer every day.
1254 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1258 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1260 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1262 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1263 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1264 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1265 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1267 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1268 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1269 you will get one of the machines.
1273 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1277 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1278 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1279 this with the --share-code command line option.
1281 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1284 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1288 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1290 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1291 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1292 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1293 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1294 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1296 Miguel is off to the <a
1297 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1301 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1303 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1304 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1307 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1308 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1309 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1313 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1314 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1317 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1318 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1321 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1322 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1323 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1324 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1326 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1327 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1328 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1331 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1332 a set of web server classes for <a
1333 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1334 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1337 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1338 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1342 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1343 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1344 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1349 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1350 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1354 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1356 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1357 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1359 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1360 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1361 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1362 set of the Perl regex engine).
1366 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1368 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1370 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1371 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1373 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1374 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1377 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1381 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1382 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1383 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1384 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1388 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1389 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1390 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1392 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1393 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1394 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1398 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1399 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1400 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1402 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1403 non-Windows platforms.
1405 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1406 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1407 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1408 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1413 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1414 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1415 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1416 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1421 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1422 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1423 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1426 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1427 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1432 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1433 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1434 year, new direction</i></a>.
1436 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1437 System.Windows.Forms.
1441 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1442 development of the compiler with itself.
1444 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1445 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1446 on Linux before the end of the month.
1448 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1449 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1450 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1454 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1455 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1456 being fixed quickly.
1458 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1462 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1464 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1466 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1467 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1469 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1470 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1475 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1476 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1478 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1479 implementation is there.
1483 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1484 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1485 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1486 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1487 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1488 reduce spills and reloads.
1490 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1491 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1492 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1493 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1495 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1497 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1498 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1503 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1504 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1505 Climent for helping to set this up.
1509 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1512 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1515 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1519 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1520 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1522 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1523 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1526 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1528 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1533 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1534 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1535 on Gtk# development.
1541 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1542 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1543 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1544 program is executed.
1546 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1547 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1550 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1551 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1552 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1554 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1555 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1556 made up of 40 tests).
1558 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1559 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1560 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1562 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1563 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1565 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1566 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1569 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1570 replace our interpreter in production.
1576 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1577 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1579 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1581 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1587 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1589 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1595 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1602 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1603 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1604 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1606 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1609 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1611 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1612 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1613 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1614 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1615 important piece of the puzzle.
1621 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1623 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1626 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1627 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1633 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1634 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1635 the array handling support.
1641 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1644 Some large recent developments:
1646 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1647 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1648 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1650 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1651 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1652 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1654 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1655 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1656 optimize foreach for the array case).
1658 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1659 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1660 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1661 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1662 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1663 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1664 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1665 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1667 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1668 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1674 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1675 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1676 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1678 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1679 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1680 recent C# compiler progress.
1686 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1687 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1693 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1694 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1696 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1697 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1698 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1699 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1701 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1708 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1709 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1711 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1713 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1714 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1721 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1722 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1723 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1724 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1726 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1727 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1728 basically focusing on completeness now.
1735 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1736 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1742 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1743 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1744 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1745 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1746 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1747 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1748 handled correctly (Miguel).
1754 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1755 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1756 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1757 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1758 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1764 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1765 Mono</a> to other architectures.
1771 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1772 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1773 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1774 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1780 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1781 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1782 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1783 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1785 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1791 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1792 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1799 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1800 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1802 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1809 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1810 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1816 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1817 will let you run it.
1819 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
1820 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1822 Good work Mono team!
1828 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1829 are available here: <a
1830 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1836 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1838 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1839 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1845 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1846 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1847 without access to the <a
1848 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>
1854 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1855 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1861 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1862 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1863 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1869 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1870 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1871 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1877 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1878 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1879 get the new class libraries from <a
1880 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1886 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1887 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1888 get the new class libraries from <a
1889 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1895 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1896 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1897 get the new class libraries from <a
1898 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1900 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1902 Got Sean's new Class
1903 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1904 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1910 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1911 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1912 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1919 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1921 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1927 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1928 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1929 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1941 Brian posted a story on <a
1942 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>