1 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
2 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
3 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
5 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
6 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
7 Common Language Infrastructure and a set of <a
8 href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>
10 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
11 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
12 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
13 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
15 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
16 source</a> for our work so far. Or you can grab a <a
17 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work.
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21 and mono-announce-list
23 You can contact the team at: <a
24 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
29 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
30 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
34 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
35 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
36 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
37 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
38 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
39 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
40 handled correctly (Miguel).
44 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
45 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
46 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
47 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
48 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
52 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
53 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
57 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
58 released (runtime engine, class libraries
59 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
60 0.7 announcement</a> for details
64 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
65 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
66 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
67 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
69 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
73 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
74 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
79 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
80 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
82 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
87 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
88 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
92 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
95 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
96 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
102 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
103 are available here: <a
104 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
108 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
110 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
111 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
115 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
116 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
117 without access to the <a
118 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>
122 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
123 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
127 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
128 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
129 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
133 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
134 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
135 Open Source Software Convention</a>
139 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
140 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
141 get the new class libraries from <a
142 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
146 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
147 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
148 get the new class libraries from <a
149 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
153 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
154 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
155 get the new class libraries from <a
156 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
158 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
160 Got Sean's new <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
161 Status</a> web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
162 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
166 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
167 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
168 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
173 href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
175 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
179 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
180 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
181 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
189 Brian posted a story on <a
190 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>