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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>
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38 In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
39 about the team members we have created the <a
40 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
41 Which archives can be found <a
42 href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
48 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
53 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
56 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
74 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
81 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
84 All assemblies compile.
92 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
97 <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
105 @item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
107 The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
108 only avaiable in German, you can find it <a
109 href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
111 We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
112 where we include a list of some of the people who have made
113 Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
114 to include your information.
116 @item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
118 The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
120 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
122 Zoltan has commited his <a
123 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
124 allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
126 @item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
128 Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
129 <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
130 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
132 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
134 Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
135 module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
136 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
138 The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
139 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
140 <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
142 @item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
144 <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
145 openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
147 @item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
149 <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
152 <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
153 What do you think about Mono?
155 Is your company involved with the development and
156 deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
157 important part of your company's business application
158 strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
159 project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
160 and the use of Linux in business critical
163 If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
164 would like to talk with you. If interested, please
166 href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
172 @item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
174 Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
175 that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
176 is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
177 Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
179 @item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
181 A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
182 notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
183 bug fix release. No new features.
185 @item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
187 Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
188 href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
191 A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
192 has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
194 Martin also announced a <a
195 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
196 release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
198 @item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
200 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
201 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
202 contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
205 Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
206 fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
207 and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
208 and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
209 point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
212 @item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
214 A new mailing list for <a
215 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
216 Development</a> has been created.
218 @item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
220 Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
221 The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
223 @item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
225 Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
226 href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
227 Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
229 Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
230 handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
231 href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
233 Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
234 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
235 tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
237 Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
238 momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
240 @item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
242 Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
243 href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
244 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
245 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
246 and performance improvements.
249 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
251 <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
252 binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
253 href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
255 @item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
257 With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
258 looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
259 of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
261 Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
262 checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
263 how to complete this process <a
264 href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
265 href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
266 for further discussion.
268 @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
270 Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
271 Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
272 href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
273 on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
274 straight binding to the C API.
277 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
278 an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
281 We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
282 JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
284 @item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
286 Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
287 as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
288 Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
289 advantage of Unix facilities.
291 A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
293 Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
294 If you want to contribute please read <a
295 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
298 Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
299 improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
300 has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
301 source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
302 (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
303 work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
304 generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
306 @item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
308 <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
309 Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
310 announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
312 @item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
315 href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
316 release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
318 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
320 @item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
322 Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
323 World Expo. A description is <a
324 href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
327 href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
328 release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
329 shipping that uses Mono.
331 @item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
333 Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
334 href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
335 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
336 There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
337 and performance improvements.
339 We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
340 screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
341 there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
342 progress on the documentation browser.
344 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
345 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
347 @item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
349 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
350 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
351 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
352 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
353 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
356 Details of the release are available in <a
357 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
359 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
360 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
361 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
362 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
365 @item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
367 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
369 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
370 distribution, and MCS works with it.
372 Zoltan has managed to get <a
373 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
374 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
377 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
379 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
380 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
381 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
383 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
385 A new issue of the <a
386 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
387 Weekly News</a> has been published.
389 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
390 that Sebastien has put together.
392 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
394 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
395 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
396 improved this to use implicit names as well.
398 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
399 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
400 per-thread basis now.
402 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
403 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
404 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
405 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
406 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
408 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
409 statements on the grammar.
411 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
412 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
414 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
416 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
417 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
418 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
421 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
422 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
423 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
425 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
426 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
427 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
428 of their product, also using Mono.
430 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
433 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
434 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
435 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
436 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
438 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
439 and its available from our <a
440 href="download.html">download</a> page.
442 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
444 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
446 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
447 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
448 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
450 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
451 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
452 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
453 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
454 asp.net has been released as well.
456 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
458 This release also includes a new exception handling system
459 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
460 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
462 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
464 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
465 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
466 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
467 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
470 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
471 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
472 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
474 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
477 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
480 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
481 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
482 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
483 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
485 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
486 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
487 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
488 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
489 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
490 server on Unix using Mono.
492 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
493 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
494 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
495 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
497 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
498 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
499 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
500 new test application that people can use to test their
501 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
502 you can participate in the <a
503 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
506 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
507 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
509 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
512 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
513 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
515 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
516 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
517 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
518 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
520 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
522 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
523 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
525 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
526 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
528 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
529 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
530 new technology are <a
531 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
532 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
534 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
535 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
536 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
538 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
539 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
542 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
543 see Windows screenshots for it <a
544 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
545 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
547 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
550 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
551 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
553 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
554 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
555 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
557 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
559 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
560 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
563 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
565 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
566 in Open Office file format.
568 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
570 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
571 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
573 Tim Coleman posted an <a
574 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
575 on the improvements in the System.Data
577 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
578 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
580 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
582 Tim's SqlClient is <a
583 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
584 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
585 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
586 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
588 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
590 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
591 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
592 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
593 been working on the Security classes.
595 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
596 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
597 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
598 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
600 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
601 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
603 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
606 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
607 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
609 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
611 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
614 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
615 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
616 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
617 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
618 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
619 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
621 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
622 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
623 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
624 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
625 list</a> mailing list.
627 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
628 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
629 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
630 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
631 data adapter is also coming soon.
633 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
635 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
636 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
637 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
638 are not supported by the .NET framework.
640 Last week we created a new <a
641 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
642 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
644 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
645 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
648 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
650 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
651 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
652 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
653 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
654 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
655 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
656 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
657 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
658 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
659 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
661 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
662 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
663 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
664 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
665 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
666 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
667 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
668 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
671 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
673 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
674 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
675 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
677 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
678 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
680 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
681 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
682 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
683 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
684 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
685 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
686 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
688 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
689 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
690 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
691 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
692 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
695 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
696 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
697 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
698 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
699 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
700 Documentation Tools</a>.
702 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
704 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
705 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
706 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
707 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
709 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
710 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
711 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
712 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
713 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
714 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
715 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
716 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
717 configuration file `machine.config'.
719 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
721 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
723 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
724 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
725 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
728 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
729 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
730 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
731 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
732 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
734 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
736 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
737 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
739 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
740 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
741 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
742 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
743 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
744 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
747 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
749 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
750 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
751 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
753 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
754 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
755 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
756 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
759 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
761 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
762 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
765 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
767 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
768 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
769 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
772 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
773 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
774 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
775 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
776 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
777 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
780 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
782 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
783 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
784 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
785 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
786 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
787 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
789 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
790 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
791 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
793 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
794 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
795 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
796 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
797 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
798 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
799 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
800 on making a good UI in the future.
802 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
803 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
804 This is the substrate for implementing the
805 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
807 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
808 classes implementation.
810 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
811 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
812 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
813 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
814 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
817 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
820 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
821 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
822 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
823 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
824 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
825 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
826 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
827 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
829 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
832 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
833 announced an Apache module that hosts
834 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
835 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
838 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
840 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
841 released a fresh version of <a
842 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
843 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
845 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
847 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
848 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
849 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
851 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
853 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
854 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
855 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
858 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
859 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
862 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
864 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
866 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
867 on par with the PPC port.
869 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
870 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
871 code for the remoting infrastructure.
873 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
874 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
877 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
879 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
880 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
881 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
882 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
884 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
885 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
886 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
887 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
889 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
890 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
891 for structure marshaling.
893 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
894 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
895 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
896 to integrate with Patrik's code.
898 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
899 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
900 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
902 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
905 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
907 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
908 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
909 a successful free software project.
911 The first, deserved, entry goes to
912 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
913 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
914 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
915 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
917 @item Looking for volunteers
919 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
920 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
924 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
926 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
927 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
928 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
929 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
930 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
932 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
933 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
934 library documentation.
936 We have some special needs (read them <a
937 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
938 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
939 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
940 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
942 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
943 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
944 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
947 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
948 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
949 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
952 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
954 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
955 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
956 assignment in the C# language.
958 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
961 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
962 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
963 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
965 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
966 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
967 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
969 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
970 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
971 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
973 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
976 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
977 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
978 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
980 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
982 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
983 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
984 your sources for the <a
985 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
986 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
988 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
989 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
990 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
991 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
992 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
994 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
996 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
997 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
999 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
1000 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
1001 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
1002 associated web service tools.
1004 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
1006 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
1008 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
1009 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
1011 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
1012 has been translated as well.
1014 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
1016 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
1017 now landed on the CVS repository.
1019 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
1020 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
1021 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
1022 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
1025 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
1026 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
1027 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
1029 @item Jul 17th, 2002
1031 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
1032 available online, from young director <a
1033 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
1034 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
1035 Monkey At Work"</a>.
1037 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
1038 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
1040 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
1041 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
1042 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
1043 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
1045 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
1046 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
1047 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
1049 @item Jul 16th, 2002
1051 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
1052 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
1053 compiler and the Mono runtime.
1055 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
1056 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
1057 from the source code it is compiling.
1059 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
1060 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
1061 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
1065 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
1066 The resulting image contained errors though.
1068 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
1069 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
1071 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
1072 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
1073 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
1075 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
1076 run the compiler on Linux.
1078 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
1079 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
1081 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
1082 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
1083 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
1085 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
1086 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
1089 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
1090 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
1091 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
1093 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
1094 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
1095 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
1096 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
1097 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
1098 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
1099 code is cross platform.
1103 Ajay was the first to notice <a
1104 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
1105 Mono's first birthday</a>.
1107 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
1109 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
1110 * A complete CLI implementation:
1112 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
1113 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
1115 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
1116 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
1117 * 92,000 lines of C code.
1118 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
1119 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
1120 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
1121 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
1122 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
1125 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
1126 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
1127 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
1128 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
1129 been possible without every contribution.
1131 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
1132 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
1134 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
1135 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
1136 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
1137 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
1138 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
1139 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
1140 to integrate with other object systems.
1142 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
1143 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
1144 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
1147 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
1148 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
1149 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
1150 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
1155 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
1158 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
1159 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
1160 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
1161 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
1162 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
1163 applications like these in the near future.
1165 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
1166 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
1167 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
1168 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
1169 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
1170 architecture independent layer.
1172 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
1173 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
1174 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
1175 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
1176 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
1177 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
1178 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
1179 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
1180 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
1183 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
1184 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
1189 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
1190 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
1191 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
1193 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
1194 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
1196 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
1197 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
1198 applications with it. Details are <a
1199 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
1201 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
1205 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
1206 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
1207 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
1208 being defined at that point to perform compares).
1210 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
1211 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
1212 our resulting corlib.
1214 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
1216 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
1217 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
1218 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
1219 now a good development tool.
1221 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
1222 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
1223 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
1224 bindings, that should simplify application development.
1226 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
1227 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
1231 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
1232 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
1233 to promote free software is going very well.
1235 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
1237 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
1238 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
1240 On Monday Piers Haken <a
1241 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
1242 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
1243 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
1245 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
1246 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
1247 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
1248 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
1249 This means for example that any process can check on the
1250 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
1252 Of course, those interested
1253 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
1258 Duncan has written a few sample <a
1259 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
1260 applications</a> (<a
1261 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
1263 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
1265 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
1266 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
1267 She also got some <a
1268 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
1273 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
1274 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
1276 Also, we are getting close to
1277 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
1278 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
1279 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
1281 Steam is picking up in <a
1282 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
1283 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
1284 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
1285 libraries, which is nice to see.
1289 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
1290 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
1291 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
1293 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
1294 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
1295 match the Microsoft implementation.
1299 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
1300 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
1303 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
1304 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
1309 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
1310 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1314 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1315 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1318 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1319 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1320 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1324 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1328 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1329 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1330 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1331 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1333 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1334 been checked into CVS.
1336 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1337 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1339 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1340 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1341 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1345 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1346 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1347 that process this data.
1349 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1350 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1354 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1355 System.Data class library.
1360 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1361 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1363 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1364 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1365 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1366 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1370 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1371 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1372 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1373 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1377 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1378 it is possible to get <a
1379 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1380 number</a> information on stack traces.
1384 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1385 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1386 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1388 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1389 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1391 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1392 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1394 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1395 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1397 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1398 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1400 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1404 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1406 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1411 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1412 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1413 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1415 You can find more information
1416 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1418 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1419 and others for these bits.
1423 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1424 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1425 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1426 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1427 should make it easier to use and compile.
1429 This is another milestone for our <a
1430 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1432 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1436 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1437 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1438 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1440 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1441 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1442 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1443 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1444 expose to applications.
1447 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1448 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1449 support</a>, Mike <a
1450 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1455 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1456 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1460 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1461 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1462 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1464 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1469 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1470 fixes and more classes are included.
1472 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1473 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1474 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1478 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1479 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1480 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1484 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1486 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1491 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1493 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1494 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1495 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1497 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1500 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1501 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1502 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1503 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1504 exceptions work). Check <a
1505 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1508 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1509 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1511 Early this week Patrik started the string
1512 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1513 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1515 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1516 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1518 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1519 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1522 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1523 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1524 together are very powerful.
1526 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1527 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1533 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1534 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1536 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1537 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1542 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1543 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1545 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1546 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1547 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1551 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1552 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1553 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1554 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1558 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1559 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1560 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1565 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1566 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1567 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1572 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1575 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1576 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1577 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1581 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1582 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1583 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1587 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1588 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1591 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1592 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1593 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1594 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1599 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1600 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1601 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1602 debugging information).
1604 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1605 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1607 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1608 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1609 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1611 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1612 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1615 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1616 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1617 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1619 Remember to post your bug reports.
1621 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1622 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1623 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1624 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1628 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1629 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1630 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1632 A release will follow up shortly.
1636 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1637 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1642 MCS compiles on Linux!
1644 Today Paolo got the <a
1645 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1646 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1647 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1648 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1649 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1650 speed was improved in 400%
1652 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1654 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1655 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1659 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>
1661 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1662 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1663 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1665 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1666 revamped regression test suite.
1668 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1669 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1671 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1672 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>
1676 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1681 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1682 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1683 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1685 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1689 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1690 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1691 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1692 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1694 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1695 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1696 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1700 Paolo posted a list of <a
1701 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1702 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1703 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1708 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1712 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1714 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1718 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1720 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1721 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1722 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1725 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1726 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1727 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1731 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1732 Self hosting is closer every day.
1734 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1738 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1740 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1742 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1743 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1744 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1745 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1747 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1748 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1749 you will get one of the machines.
1753 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1757 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1758 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1759 this with the --share-code command line option.
1761 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1764 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1768 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1770 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1771 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1772 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1773 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1774 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1776 Miguel is off to the <a
1777 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1781 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1783 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1784 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1787 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1788 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1789 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1793 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1794 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1797 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1798 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1801 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1802 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1803 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1804 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1806 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1807 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1808 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1811 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1812 a set of web server classes for <a
1813 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1814 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1817 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1818 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1822 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1823 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1824 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1829 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1830 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1834 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1836 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1837 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1839 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1840 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1841 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1842 set of the Perl regex engine).
1846 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1848 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1850 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1851 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1853 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1854 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1857 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1861 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1862 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1863 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1864 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1868 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1869 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1870 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1872 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1873 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1874 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1878 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1879 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1880 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1882 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1883 non-Windows platforms.
1885 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1886 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1887 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1888 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1893 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1894 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1895 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1896 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1901 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1902 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1903 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1906 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1907 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1912 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1913 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1914 year, new direction</i></a>.
1916 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1917 System.Windows.Forms.
1921 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1922 development of the compiler with itself.
1924 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1925 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1926 on Linux before the end of the month.
1928 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1929 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1930 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1934 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1935 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1936 being fixed quickly.
1938 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1942 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1944 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1946 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1947 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1949 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1950 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1955 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1956 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1958 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1959 implementation is there.
1963 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1964 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1965 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1966 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1967 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1968 reduce spills and reloads.
1970 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1971 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1972 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1973 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1975 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1977 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1978 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1983 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1984 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1985 Climent for helping to set this up.
1989 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1992 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1995 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1999 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
2000 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
2002 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
2003 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
2006 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
2008 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
2013 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
2014 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
2015 on Gtk# development.
2021 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
2022 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
2023 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
2024 program is executed.
2026 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
2027 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
2030 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
2031 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
2032 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
2034 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
2035 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
2036 made up of 40 tests).
2038 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
2039 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
2040 what Paolo has been working on lately).
2042 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
2043 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
2045 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
2046 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
2049 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
2050 replace our interpreter in production.
2056 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
2057 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
2059 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
2061 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
2067 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
2069 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
2075 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
2082 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
2083 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
2084 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
2086 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
2089 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
2091 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
2092 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
2093 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
2094 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
2095 important piece of the puzzle.
2101 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
2103 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
2106 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
2107 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
2113 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
2114 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
2115 the array handling support.
2121 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
2124 Some large recent developments:
2126 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
2127 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
2128 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
2130 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
2131 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
2132 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
2134 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
2135 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
2136 optimize foreach for the array case).
2138 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
2139 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
2140 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
2141 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
2142 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
2143 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
2144 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
2145 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
2147 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
2148 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
2154 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
2155 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
2156 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
2158 Ximian users around the world <!--a
2159 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
2160 recent C# compiler progress.
2166 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
2167 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
2173 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
2174 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
2176 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
2177 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
2178 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
2179 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
2181 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
2188 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
2189 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
2191 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
2193 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
2194 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
2201 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
2202 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
2203 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
2204 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
2206 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
2207 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
2208 basically focusing on completeness now.
2215 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
2216 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
2222 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
2223 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
2224 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
2225 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
2226 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
2227 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
2228 handled correctly (Miguel).
2234 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
2235 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
2236 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
2237 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
2238 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
2244 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
2245 Mono</a> to other architectures.
2251 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
2252 released (runtime engine, class libraries
2253 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
2254 0.7 announcement</a> for details
2260 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
2261 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
2262 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
2263 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
2265 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
2271 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
2272 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
2279 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
2280 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
2282 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
2289 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
2290 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
2296 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
2297 will let you run it.
2299 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
2300 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
2302 Good work Mono team!
2308 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
2309 are available here: <a
2310 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2316 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2318 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2319 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2325 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2326 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2327 without access to the <a
2328 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>
2334 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2335 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2341 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2342 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2343 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2349 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2350 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2351 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2357 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2358 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2359 get the new class libraries from <a
2360 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2366 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2367 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2368 get the new class libraries from <a
2369 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2375 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2376 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2377 get the new class libraries from <a
2378 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2380 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2382 Got Sean's new Class
2383 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2384 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2390 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2391 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2392 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2399 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2401 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2407 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2408 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2409 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2421 Brian posted a story on <a
2422 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>