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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 refered as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
15 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
16 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
17 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
18 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
20 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
21 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
22 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
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37 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
42 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
45 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
63 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
70 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
73 Corlib is self hosting.
81 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
93 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
94 ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
97 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released
99 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
100 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
101 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
103 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
105 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
106 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
109 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
111 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
112 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
113 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
116 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
117 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
118 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
119 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
120 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
121 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
124 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
126 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
127 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
128 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
129 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
130 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
131 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
133 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
134 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
135 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
137 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
138 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
139 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
140 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
141 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
142 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
143 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
144 on making a good UI in the future.
146 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
147 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
148 This is the substrate for implementing the
149 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
151 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
152 classes implemetation.
154 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
155 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
156 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
157 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
158 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
161 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
164 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
165 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
166 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
167 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
168 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
169 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
170 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
171 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
173 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
176 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
177 announced an Apache module that hosts
178 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
179 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
182 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
184 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
185 released a fresh version of <a
186 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
187 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
189 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
191 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
192 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
193 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
195 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
197 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
198 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
199 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
202 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
203 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
206 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
208 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
209 on par with the PPC port.
211 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
212 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
213 code for the remoting infrastructure.
215 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
216 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
219 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
221 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
222 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
223 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
224 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
226 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
227 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
228 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
229 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
231 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
232 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
233 for structure marshaling.
235 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
236 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
237 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
238 to integrate with Patrik's code.
240 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
241 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
242 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
244 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
247 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
249 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
250 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
251 a successful free software project.
253 The first, deserved, entry goes to
254 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
255 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
256 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
257 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
259 @item Looking for volunteers
261 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
262 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
266 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
268 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
269 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
270 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
271 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
272 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
274 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
275 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
276 library documentation.
278 We have some special needs (read them <a
279 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
280 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
281 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
282 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
284 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
285 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
286 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
289 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
290 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
291 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
294 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
296 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
297 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
298 assignment in the C# language.
300 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
303 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
304 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
305 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
307 Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
308 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
309 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
311 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
312 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
313 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
315 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
318 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
319 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
320 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
322 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
324 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
325 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
326 your sources for the <a
327 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
328 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
330 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
331 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
332 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
333 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
334 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
336 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
338 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
339 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
341 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
342 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
343 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
344 associated web service tools.
346 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
348 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
350 A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
351 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
353 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
354 has been translated as well.
356 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
358 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
359 now landed on the CVS repository.
361 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
362 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
363 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
364 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
367 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
368 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
369 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
373 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
374 available online, from young director <a
375 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
376 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
379 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
380 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
382 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
383 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
384 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
385 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
387 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
388 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
389 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
393 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
394 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
395 compiler and the Mono runtime.
397 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
398 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
399 from the source code it is compiling.
401 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
402 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
403 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
407 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
408 The resulting image contained errors though.
410 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
411 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
413 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
414 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
415 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
417 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
418 run the compiler on Linux.
420 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
421 compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
423 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
424 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
425 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
427 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
428 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
431 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
432 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
433 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
435 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
436 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
437 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
438 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
439 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
440 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
441 code is cross platform.
445 Ajay was the first to notice <a
446 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
447 Mono's first birthday</a>.
449 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
451 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
452 * A complete CLI implementation:
454 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
455 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
457 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
458 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
459 * 92,000 lines of C code.
460 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
461 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
462 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
463 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
464 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
467 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
468 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
469 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
470 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
471 been possible without every contribution.
473 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
474 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
476 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
477 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
478 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
479 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
480 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
481 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
482 to integrate with other object systems.
484 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
485 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
486 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
489 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
490 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
491 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
492 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
497 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
500 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
501 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
502 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
503 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
504 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
505 applications like these in the near future.
507 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
508 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
509 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
510 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
511 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
512 architecture independent layer.
514 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
515 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
516 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
517 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
518 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
519 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
520 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
521 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
522 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
525 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
526 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
531 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
532 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
533 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
535 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
536 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
538 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
539 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
540 applications with it. Details are <a
541 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
543 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
547 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
548 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
549 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
550 being defined at that point to perform compares).
552 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
553 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
554 our resulting corlib.
556 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
558 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
559 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
560 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
561 now a good development tool.
563 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
564 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
565 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
566 bindings, that should simplify application development.
568 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
569 Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
573 I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
574 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
575 to promote free software is going very well.
577 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
579 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
580 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
582 On Monday Piers Haken <a
583 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
584 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
585 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
587 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
588 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
589 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
590 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
591 This means for example that any process can check on the
592 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
594 Of course, those interested
595 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
600 Duncan has written a few sample <a
601 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
603 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
605 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
607 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
608 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
610 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
615 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
616 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
618 Also, we are getting close to
619 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
620 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
621 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
623 Steam is picking up in <a
624 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
625 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
626 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
627 libraries, which is nice to see.
631 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
632 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
633 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
635 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
636 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
637 match the Microsoft implementation.
641 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
642 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
645 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
646 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
651 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
652 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
656 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
657 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
660 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
661 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
662 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
666 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
670 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
671 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
672 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
673 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
675 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
676 been checked into CVS.
678 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
679 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
681 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
682 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
683 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
687 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
688 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
689 that process this data.
691 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
692 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
696 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
697 System.Data class library.
702 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
703 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
705 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
706 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
707 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
708 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
712 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
713 on the Mono runtime. This <a
714 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
715 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
719 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
720 it is possible to get <a
721 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
722 number</a> information on stack traces.
726 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
727 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
728 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
730 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
731 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
733 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
734 compiling most of our regression test suite.
736 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
737 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
739 The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
740 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
742 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
746 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
748 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
753 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
754 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
755 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
757 You can find more information
758 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
760 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
761 and others for these bits.
765 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
766 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
767 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
768 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
769 should make it easier to use and compile.
771 This is another milestone for our <a
772 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
774 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
778 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
779 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
780 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
782 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
783 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
784 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
785 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
786 expose to applications.
789 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
790 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
792 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
797 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
798 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
802 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
803 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
804 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
806 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
811 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
812 fixes and more classes are included.
814 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
815 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
816 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
820 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
821 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
822 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
826 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
828 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
833 Some updates from the hacking lines:
835 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
836 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
837 is part of the ASP.NET support.
839 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
842 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
843 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
844 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
845 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
846 exceptions work). Check <a
847 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
850 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
851 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
853 Early this week Patrik started the string
854 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
855 constructors and deployed the new layout.
857 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
858 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
860 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
861 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
864 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
865 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
866 together are very powerful.
868 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
869 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
875 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
876 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
878 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
879 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
884 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
885 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
887 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
888 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
889 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
893 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
894 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
895 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
896 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
900 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
901 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
902 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
907 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
908 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
909 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
914 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
917 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
918 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
919 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
923 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
924 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
925 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
929 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
930 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
933 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
934 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
935 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
936 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
941 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
942 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
943 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
944 debugging information).
946 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
947 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
949 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
950 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
951 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
953 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
954 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
957 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
958 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
959 us to run the compiler on Linux.
961 Remember to post your bug reports.
963 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
964 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
965 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
966 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
970 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
971 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
972 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
974 A release will follow up shortly.
978 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
979 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
984 MCS compiles on Linux!
986 Today Paolo got the <a
987 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
988 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
989 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
990 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
991 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
992 speed was improved in 400%
994 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
996 Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
997 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1001 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>
1003 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1004 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1005 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1007 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1008 revamped regression test suite.
1010 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1011 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1013 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1014 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>
1018 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1023 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1024 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1025 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1027 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1031 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1032 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1033 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1034 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1036 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1037 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1038 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1042 Paolo posted a list of <a
1043 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1044 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1045 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1050 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1054 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1056 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1060 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1062 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1063 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1064 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1067 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1068 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1069 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1073 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1074 Self hosting is closer every day.
1076 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1080 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1082 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1084 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1085 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1086 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1087 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1089 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1090 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1091 you will get one of the machines.
1095 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1099 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1100 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1101 this with the --share-code command line option.
1103 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1106 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1110 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1112 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1113 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1114 comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1115 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1116 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1118 Miguel is off to the <a
1119 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1123 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1125 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1126 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1129 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1130 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1131 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1135 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1136 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1139 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1140 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1143 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1144 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1145 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1146 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1148 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1149 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1150 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1153 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1154 a set of web server classes for <a
1155 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1156 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1159 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1160 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1164 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1165 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1166 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1171 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1172 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1176 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1178 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1179 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1181 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1182 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1183 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1184 set of the Perl regex engine).
1188 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1190 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1192 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1193 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1195 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1196 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1199 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1203 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1204 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1205 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1206 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1210 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1211 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1212 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1214 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1215 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1216 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1220 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1221 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1222 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1224 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1225 non-Windows platforms.
1227 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1228 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1229 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1230 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1235 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1236 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1237 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1238 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1243 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1244 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1245 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1248 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1249 compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
1254 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1255 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1256 year, new direction</i></a>.
1258 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1259 System.Windows.Forms.
1263 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1264 development of the compiler with itself.
1266 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1267 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1268 on Linux before the end of the month.
1270 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1271 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1272 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1276 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1277 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1278 being fixed quickly.
1280 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1284 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1286 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1288 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1289 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1291 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1292 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1297 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1298 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1300 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1301 implementation is there.
1305 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1306 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1307 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1308 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1309 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1310 reduce spills and reloads.
1312 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1313 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1314 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1315 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1317 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1319 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1320 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1325 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1326 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1327 Climent for helping to set this up.
1331 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1334 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1337 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1341 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1342 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1344 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1345 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1348 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1350 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1355 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1356 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1357 on Gtk# development.
1363 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1364 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1365 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1366 program is executed.
1368 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1369 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1372 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1373 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1374 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1376 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1377 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1378 made up of 40 tests).
1380 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1381 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1382 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1384 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1385 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1387 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1388 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1391 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1392 replace our interpreter in production.
1398 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1399 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1401 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1403 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1409 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1411 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1417 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1424 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1425 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1426 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1428 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
1431 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1433 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1434 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1435 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1436 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1437 important piece of the puzzle.
1443 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1445 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
1448 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1449 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1455 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
1456 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1457 the array handling support.
1463 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
1466 Some large recent developments:
1468 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1469 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1470 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1472 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1473 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1474 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1476 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1477 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1478 optimize foreach for the array case).
1480 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1481 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1482 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1483 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1484 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1485 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1486 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1487 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1489 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1490 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1496 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1497 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1498 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1500 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1501 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1502 recent C# compiler progress.
1508 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1509 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1515 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1516 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1518 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1519 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1520 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1521 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1523 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1530 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1531 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1533 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1535 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1536 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1543 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1544 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1545 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1546 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1548 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1549 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1550 basically focusing on completeness now.
1557 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1558 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1564 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1565 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1566 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1567 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1568 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1569 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1570 handled correctly (Miguel).
1576 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1577 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1578 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1579 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1580 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1586 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1587 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
1593 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1594 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1595 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1596 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1602 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1603 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1604 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1605 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1607 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1613 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1614 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1621 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1622 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1624 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1631 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1632 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1638 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1639 will let you run it.
1641 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
1642 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1644 Good work Mono team!
1650 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1651 are available here: <a
1652 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1658 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1660 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1661 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1667 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1668 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1669 without access to the <a
1670 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>
1676 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1677 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1683 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1684 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1685 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1691 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1692 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1693 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1699 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1700 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1701 get the new class libraries from <a
1702 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1708 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1709 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1710 get the new class libraries from <a
1711 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1717 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1718 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1719 get the new class libraries from <a
1720 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1722 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1724 Got Sean's new Class
1725 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1726 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1732 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1733 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1734 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1741 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1743 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1749 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1750 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1751 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1763 Brian posted a story on <a
1764 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>