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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
27 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
28 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
32 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
33 and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
34 href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
35 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
37 You can contact the team at: <a
38 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
40 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
41 about the team members we have created the <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
43 Which archives can be found <a
44 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
45 We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
46 and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
53 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
58 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
61 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
79 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
85 <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
86 <td>Webforms working<br></td>
90 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
93 All assemblies compile.
101 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
106 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
114 @item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
116 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
117 their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
118 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
119 On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
120 ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
122 Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
123 href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
124 and a demo is available <a
125 href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
127 OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
130 Jon Udell wrote a small <a
131 href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
133 @item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
135 Atsushi has created a <a
136 href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
137 validating XML reader.
139 There is activity on the <a
140 href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
141 href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
143 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
145 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
146 only avaiable in German, you can find it <a
147 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
149 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
150 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
151 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
152 to include your information.
154 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
156 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
158 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
160 Zoltan has commited his <a
161 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
162 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
164 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
166 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
167 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
168 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
170 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
172 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
173 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
174 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
176 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
177 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
178 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
180 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
182 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
183 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
185 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
187 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
190 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
191 What do you think about Mono?
193 Is your company involved with the development and
194 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
195 important part of your company's business application
196 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
197 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
198 and the use of Linux in business critical
201 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
202 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
204 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
210 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
212 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
213 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
214 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
215 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
217 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
219 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
220 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
221 bug fix release. No new features.
223 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
225 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
226 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
229 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
230 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
232 Martin also announced a <a
233 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
234 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
236 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
238 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
239 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
240 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
243 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
244 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
245 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
246 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
247 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
250 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
252 A new mailing list for <a
253 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
254 Development</a> has been created.
256 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
258 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
259 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
261 Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
263 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
265 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
266 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
267 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
269 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
270 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
271 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
273 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
274 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
275 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
277 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
278 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
280 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
282 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
283 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
284 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
285 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
286 and performance improvements.
289 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
291 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
292 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
293 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
295 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
297 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
298 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
299 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
301 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
302 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
303 how to complete this process <a
304 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
305 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
306 for further discussion.
308 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
310 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
311 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
312 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
313 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
314 straight binding to the C API.
317 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
318 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
321 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
322 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
324 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
326 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
327 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
328 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
329 advantage of Unix facilities.
331 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
333 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
334 If you want to contribute please read <a
335 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
338 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
339 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
340 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
341 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
342 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
343 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
344 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
346 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
348 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
349 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
350 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
352 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
355 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
356 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
358 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
360 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
362 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
363 World Expo. A description is <a
364 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
367 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
368 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
369 shipping that uses Mono.
371 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
373 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
374 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
375 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
376 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
377 and performance improvements.
379 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
380 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
381 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
382 progress on the documentation browser.
384 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
385 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
387 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
389 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
390 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
391 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
392 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
393 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
396 Details of the release are available in <a
397 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
399 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
400 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
401 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
402 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
405 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
407 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
409 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
410 distribution, and MCS works with it.
412 Zoltan has managed to get <a
413 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
414 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
417 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
419 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
420 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
421 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
423 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
425 A new issue of the <a
426 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
427 Weekly News</a> has been published.
429 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
430 that Sebastien has put together.
432 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
434 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
435 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
436 improved this to use implicit names as well.
438 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
439 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
440 per-thread basis now.
442 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
443 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
444 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
445 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
446 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
448 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
449 statements on the grammar.
451 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
452 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
454 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
456 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
457 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
458 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
461 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
462 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
463 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
465 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
466 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
467 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
468 of their product, also using Mono.
470 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
473 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
474 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
475 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
476 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
478 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
479 and its available from our <a
480 href="download.html">download</a> page.
482 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
484 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
486 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
487 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
488 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
490 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
491 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
492 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
493 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
494 asp.net has been released as well.
496 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
498 This release also includes a new exception handling system
499 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
500 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
502 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
504 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
505 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
506 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
507 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
510 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
511 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
512 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
514 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
517 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
520 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
521 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
522 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
523 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
525 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
526 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
527 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
528 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
529 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
530 server on Unix using Mono.
532 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
533 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
534 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
535 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
537 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
538 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
539 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
540 new test application that people can use to test their
541 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
542 you can participate in the <a
543 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
546 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
547 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
549 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
552 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
553 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
555 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
556 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
557 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
558 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
560 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
562 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
563 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
565 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
566 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
568 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
569 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
570 new technology are <a
571 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
572 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
574 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
575 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
576 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
578 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
579 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
582 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
583 see Windows screenshots for it <a
584 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
585 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
587 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
590 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
591 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
593 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
594 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
595 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
597 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
599 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
600 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
603 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
605 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
606 in Open Office file format.
608 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
610 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
611 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
613 Tim Coleman posted an <a
614 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
615 on the improvements in the System.Data
617 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
618 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
620 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
622 Tim's SqlClient is <a
623 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
624 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
625 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
626 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
628 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
630 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
631 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
632 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
633 been working on the Security classes.
635 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
636 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
637 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
638 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
640 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
641 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
643 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
646 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
647 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
649 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
651 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
654 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
655 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
656 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
657 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
658 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
659 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
661 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
662 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
663 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
664 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
665 list</a> mailing list.
667 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
668 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
669 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
670 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
671 data adapter is also coming soon.
673 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
675 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
676 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
677 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
678 are not supported by the .NET framework.
680 Last week we created a new <a
681 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
682 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
684 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
685 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
688 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
690 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
691 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
692 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
693 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
694 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
695 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
696 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
697 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
698 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
699 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
701 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
702 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
703 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
704 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
705 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
706 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
707 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
708 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
711 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
713 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
714 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
715 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
717 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
718 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
720 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
721 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
722 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
723 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
724 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
725 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
726 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
728 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
729 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
730 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
731 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
732 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
735 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
736 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
737 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
738 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
739 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
740 Documentation Tools</a>.
742 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
744 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
745 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
746 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
747 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
749 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
750 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
751 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
752 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
753 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
754 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
755 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
756 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
757 configuration file `machine.config'.
759 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
761 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
763 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
764 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
765 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
768 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
769 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
770 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
771 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
772 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
774 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
776 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
777 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
779 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
780 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
781 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
782 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
783 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
784 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
787 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
789 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
790 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
791 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
793 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
794 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
795 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
796 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
799 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
801 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
802 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
805 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
807 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
808 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
809 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
812 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
813 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
814 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
815 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
816 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
817 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
820 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
822 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
823 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
824 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
825 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
826 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
827 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
829 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
830 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
831 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
833 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
834 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
835 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
836 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
837 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
838 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
839 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
840 on making a good UI in the future.
842 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
843 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
844 This is the substrate for implementing the
845 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
847 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
848 classes implementation.
850 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
851 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
852 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
853 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
854 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
857 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
860 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
861 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
862 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
863 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
864 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
865 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
866 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
867 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
869 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
872 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
873 announced an Apache module that hosts
874 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
875 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
878 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
880 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
881 released a fresh version of <a
882 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
883 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
885 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
887 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
888 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
889 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
891 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
893 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
894 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
895 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
898 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
899 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
902 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
904 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
906 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
907 on par with the PPC port.
909 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
910 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
911 code for the remoting infrastructure.
913 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
914 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
917 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
919 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
920 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
921 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
922 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
924 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
925 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
926 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
927 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
929 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
930 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
931 for structure marshaling.
933 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
934 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
935 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
936 to integrate with Patrik's code.
938 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
939 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
940 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
942 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
945 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
947 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
948 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
949 a successful free software project.
951 The first, deserved, entry goes to
952 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
953 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
954 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
955 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
957 @item Looking for volunteers
959 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
960 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
964 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
966 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
967 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
968 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
969 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
970 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
972 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
973 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
974 library documentation.
976 We have some special needs (read them <a
977 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
978 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
979 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
980 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
982 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
983 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
984 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
987 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
988 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
989 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
992 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
994 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
995 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
996 assignment in the C# language.
998 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
1001 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
1002 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
1003 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
1005 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
1006 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
1007 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
1009 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
1010 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
1011 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
1013 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
1016 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
1017 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
1018 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
1020 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
1022 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
1023 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
1024 your sources for the <a
1025 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
1026 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
1028 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
1029 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
1030 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
1031 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
1032 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
1034 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
1036 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
1037 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
1039 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
1040 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
1041 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
1042 associated web service tools.
1044 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
1046 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
1048 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
1049 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
1051 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
1052 has been translated as well.
1054 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
1056 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
1057 now landed on the CVS repository.
1059 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
1060 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
1061 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
1062 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
1065 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
1066 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
1067 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
1069 @item Jul 17th, 2002
1071 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
1072 available online, from young director <a
1073 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
1074 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
1075 Monkey At Work"</a>.
1077 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
1078 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
1080 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
1081 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
1082 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
1083 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
1085 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
1086 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
1087 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
1089 @item Jul 16th, 2002
1091 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
1092 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
1093 compiler and the Mono runtime.
1095 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
1096 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
1097 from the source code it is compiling.
1099 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
1100 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
1101 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
1105 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
1106 The resulting image contained errors though.
1108 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
1109 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
1111 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
1112 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
1113 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
1115 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
1116 run the compiler on Linux.
1118 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
1119 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
1121 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
1122 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
1123 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
1125 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
1126 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
1129 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
1130 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
1131 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
1133 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
1134 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
1135 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
1136 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
1137 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
1138 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
1139 code is cross platform.
1143 Ajay was the first to notice <a
1144 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
1145 Mono's first birthday</a>.
1147 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
1149 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
1150 * A complete CLI implementation:
1152 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
1153 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
1155 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
1156 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
1157 * 92,000 lines of C code.
1158 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
1159 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
1160 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
1161 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
1162 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
1165 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
1166 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
1167 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
1168 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
1169 been possible without every contribution.
1171 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
1172 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
1174 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
1175 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
1176 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
1177 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
1178 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
1179 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
1180 to integrate with other object systems.
1182 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
1183 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
1184 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
1187 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
1188 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
1189 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
1190 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
1195 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
1198 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
1199 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
1200 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
1201 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
1202 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
1203 applications like these in the near future.
1205 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
1206 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
1207 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
1208 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
1209 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
1210 architecture independent layer.
1212 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
1213 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
1214 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
1215 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
1216 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
1217 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
1218 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
1219 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
1220 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
1223 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
1224 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
1229 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
1230 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
1231 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
1233 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
1234 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
1236 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
1237 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
1238 applications with it. Details are <a
1239 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
1241 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
1245 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
1246 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
1247 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
1248 being defined at that point to perform compares).
1250 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
1251 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
1252 our resulting corlib.
1254 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
1256 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
1257 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
1258 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
1259 now a good development tool.
1261 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
1262 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
1263 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
1264 bindings, that should simplify application development.
1266 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
1267 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
1271 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
1272 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
1273 to promote free software is going very well.
1275 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
1277 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
1278 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
1280 On Monday Piers Haken <a
1281 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
1282 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
1283 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
1285 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
1286 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
1287 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
1288 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
1289 This means for example that any process can check on the
1290 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
1292 Of course, those interested
1293 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
1298 Duncan has written a few sample <a
1299 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
1300 applications</a> (<a
1301 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
1303 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
1305 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
1306 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
1307 She also got some <a
1308 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
1313 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
1314 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
1316 Also, we are getting close to
1317 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
1318 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
1319 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
1321 Steam is picking up in <a
1322 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
1323 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
1324 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
1325 libraries, which is nice to see.
1329 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
1330 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
1331 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
1333 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
1334 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
1335 match the Microsoft implementation.
1339 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
1340 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
1343 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
1344 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
1349 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
1350 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1354 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1355 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1358 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1359 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1360 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1364 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1368 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1369 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1370 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1371 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1373 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1374 been checked into CVS.
1376 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1377 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1379 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1380 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1381 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1385 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1386 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1387 that process this data.
1389 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1390 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1394 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1395 System.Data class library.
1400 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1401 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1403 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1404 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1405 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1406 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1410 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1411 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1412 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1413 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1417 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1418 it is possible to get <a
1419 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1420 number</a> information on stack traces.
1424 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1425 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1426 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1428 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1429 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1431 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1432 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1434 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1435 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1437 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1438 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1440 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1444 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1446 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1451 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1452 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1453 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1455 You can find more information
1456 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1458 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1459 and others for these bits.
1463 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1464 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1465 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1466 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1467 should make it easier to use and compile.
1469 This is another milestone for our <a
1470 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1472 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1476 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1477 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1478 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1480 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1481 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1482 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1483 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1484 expose to applications.
1487 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1488 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1489 support</a>, Mike <a
1490 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1495 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1496 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1500 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1501 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1502 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1504 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1509 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1510 fixes and more classes are included.
1512 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1513 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1514 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1518 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1519 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1520 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1524 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1526 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1531 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1533 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1534 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1535 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1537 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1540 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1541 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1542 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1543 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1544 exceptions work). Check <a
1545 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1548 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1549 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1551 Early this week Patrik started the string
1552 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1553 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1555 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1556 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1558 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1559 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1562 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1563 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1564 together are very powerful.
1566 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1567 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1573 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1574 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1576 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1577 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1582 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1583 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1585 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1586 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1587 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1591 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1592 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1593 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1594 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1598 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1599 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1600 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1605 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1606 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1607 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1612 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1615 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1616 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1617 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1621 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1622 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1623 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1627 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1628 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1631 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1632 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1633 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1634 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1639 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1640 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1641 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1642 debugging information).
1644 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1645 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1647 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1648 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1649 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1651 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1652 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1655 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1656 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1657 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1659 Remember to post your bug reports.
1661 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1662 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1663 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1664 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1668 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1669 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1670 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1672 A release will follow up shortly.
1676 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1677 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1682 MCS compiles on Linux!
1684 Today Paolo got the <a
1685 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1686 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1687 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1688 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1689 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1690 speed was improved in 400%
1692 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1694 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1695 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1699 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>
1701 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1702 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1703 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1705 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1706 revamped regression test suite.
1708 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1709 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1711 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1712 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>
1716 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1721 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1722 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1723 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1725 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1729 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1730 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1731 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1732 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1734 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1735 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1736 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1740 Paolo posted a list of <a
1741 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1742 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1743 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1748 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1752 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1754 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1758 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1760 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1761 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1762 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1765 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1766 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1767 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1771 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1772 Self hosting is closer every day.
1774 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1778 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1780 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1782 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1783 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1784 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1785 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1787 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1788 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1789 you will get one of the machines.
1793 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1797 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1798 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1799 this with the --share-code command line option.
1801 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1804 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1808 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1810 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1811 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1812 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1813 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1814 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1816 Miguel is off to the <a
1817 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1821 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1823 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1824 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1827 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1828 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1829 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1833 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1834 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1837 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1838 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1841 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1842 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1843 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1844 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1846 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1847 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1848 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1851 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1852 a set of web server classes for <a
1853 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1854 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1857 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1858 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1862 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1863 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1864 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1869 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1870 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1874 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1876 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1877 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1879 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1880 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1881 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1882 set of the Perl regex engine).
1886 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1888 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1890 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1891 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1893 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1894 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1897 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1901 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1902 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1903 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1904 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1908 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1909 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1910 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1912 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1913 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1914 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1918 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1919 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1920 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1922 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1923 non-Windows platforms.
1925 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1926 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1927 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1928 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1933 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1934 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1935 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1936 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1941 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1942 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1943 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1946 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1947 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1952 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1953 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1954 year, new direction</i></a>.
1956 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1957 System.Windows.Forms.
1961 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1962 development of the compiler with itself.
1964 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1965 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1966 on Linux before the end of the month.
1968 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1969 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1970 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1974 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1975 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1976 being fixed quickly.
1978 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1982 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1984 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1986 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1987 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1989 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1990 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1995 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1996 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1998 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1999 implementation is there.
2003 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
2004 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
2005 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
2006 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
2007 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
2008 reduce spills and reloads.
2010 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
2011 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
2012 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
2013 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
2015 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
2017 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
2018 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
2023 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
2024 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
2025 Climent for helping to set this up.
2029 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
2032 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
2035 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
2039 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
2040 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
2042 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
2043 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
2046 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
2048 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
2053 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
2054 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
2055 on Gtk# development.
2061 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
2062 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
2063 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
2064 program is executed.
2066 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
2067 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
2070 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
2071 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
2072 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
2074 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
2075 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
2076 made up of 40 tests).
2078 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
2079 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
2080 what Paolo has been working on lately).
2082 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
2083 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
2085 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
2086 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
2089 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
2090 replace our interpreter in production.
2096 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
2097 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
2099 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
2101 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
2107 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
2109 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
2115 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
2122 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
2123 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
2124 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
2126 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
2129 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
2131 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
2132 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
2133 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
2134 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
2135 important piece of the puzzle.
2141 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
2143 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
2146 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
2147 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
2153 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
2154 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
2155 the array handling support.
2161 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
2164 Some large recent developments:
2166 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
2167 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
2168 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
2170 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
2171 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
2172 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
2174 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
2175 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
2176 optimize foreach for the array case).
2178 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
2179 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
2180 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
2181 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
2182 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
2183 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
2184 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
2185 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
2187 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
2188 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
2194 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
2195 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
2196 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
2198 Ximian users around the world <!--a
2199 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
2200 recent C# compiler progress.
2206 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
2207 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
2213 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
2214 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
2216 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
2217 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
2218 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
2219 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
2221 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
2228 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
2229 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
2231 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
2233 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
2234 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
2241 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
2242 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
2243 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
2244 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
2246 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
2247 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
2248 basically focusing on completeness now.
2255 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
2256 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
2262 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
2263 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
2264 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
2265 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
2266 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
2267 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
2268 handled correctly (Miguel).
2274 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
2275 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
2276 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
2277 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
2278 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
2284 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
2285 Mono</a> to other architectures.
2291 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
2292 released (runtime engine, class libraries
2293 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
2294 0.7 announcement</a> for details
2300 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
2301 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
2302 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
2303 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
2305 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
2311 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
2312 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
2319 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
2320 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
2322 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
2329 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
2330 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
2336 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
2337 will let you run it.
2339 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
2340 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
2342 Good work Mono team!
2348 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
2349 are available here: <a
2350 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2356 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2358 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2359 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2365 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2366 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2367 without access to the <a
2368 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>
2374 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2375 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2381 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2382 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2383 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2389 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2390 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2391 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2397 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2398 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2399 get the new class libraries from <a
2400 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2406 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2407 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2408 get the new class libraries from <a
2409 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2415 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2416 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2417 get the new class libraries from <a
2418 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2420 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2422 Got Sean's new Class
2423 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2424 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2430 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2431 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2432 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2439 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2441 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2447 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2448 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2449 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2461 Brian posted a story on <a
2462 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>