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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
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37 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
40 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
43 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
61 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
68 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
71 Corlib is self hosting.
79 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
87 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
89 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
90 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
91 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
94 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
95 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
98 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
100 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
101 on par with the PPC port.
103 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
104 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
105 code for the remoting infrastructure.
107 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
108 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
111 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
113 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
114 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
115 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
116 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
118 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
119 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
120 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
121 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
123 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
124 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
125 for structure marshaling.
127 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
128 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
129 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
130 to integrate with Patrik's code.
132 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
133 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
134 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
136 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
139 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
141 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
142 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
143 a successful free software project.
145 The first, deserved, entry goes to
146 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
147 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
148 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
149 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
151 @item Looking for volunteers
153 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
154 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
158 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
160 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
161 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
162 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
163 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
164 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
166 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
167 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
168 library documentation.
170 We have some special needs (read them <a
171 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
172 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
173 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
174 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
176 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
177 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
178 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
181 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
182 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
183 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
186 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
188 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
189 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
190 assignment in the C# language.
192 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
195 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
196 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
197 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
199 Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
200 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
201 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
203 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
204 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
205 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
207 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
210 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
211 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
212 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
214 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
216 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
217 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
218 your sources for the <a
219 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
220 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
222 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
223 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
224 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
225 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
226 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
228 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
230 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
231 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
233 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
234 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
235 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
236 associated web service tools.
238 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
240 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
242 A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
243 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
245 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
246 has been translated as well.
248 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
250 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
251 now landed on the CVS repository.
253 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
254 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
255 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
256 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
259 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
260 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
261 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
265 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
266 available online, from young director <a
267 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
268 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
271 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
272 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
274 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
275 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
276 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
277 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
279 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
280 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
281 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
285 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
286 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
287 compiler and the Mono runtime.
289 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
290 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
291 from the source code it is compiling.
293 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
294 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
295 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
299 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
300 The resulting image contained errors though.
302 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
303 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
305 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
306 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
307 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
309 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
310 run the compiler on Linux.
312 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
313 compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
315 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
316 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
317 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
319 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
320 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
323 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
324 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
325 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
327 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
328 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
329 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
330 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
331 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
332 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
333 code is cross platform.
337 Ajay was the first to notice <a
338 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
339 Mono's first birthday</a>.
341 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
343 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
344 * A complete CLI implementation:
346 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
347 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
349 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
350 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
351 * 92,000 lines of C code.
352 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
353 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
354 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
355 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
356 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
359 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
360 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
361 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
362 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
363 been possible without every contribution.
365 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
366 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
368 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
369 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
370 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
371 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
372 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
373 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
374 to integrate with other object systems.
376 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
377 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
378 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
381 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
382 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
383 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
384 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
389 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
392 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
393 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
394 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
395 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
396 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
397 applications like these in the near future.
399 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
400 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
401 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
402 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
403 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
404 architecture independent layer.
406 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
407 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
408 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
409 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
410 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
411 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
412 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
413 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
414 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
417 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
418 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
423 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
424 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
425 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
427 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
428 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
430 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
431 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
432 applications with it. Details are <a
433 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
435 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
439 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
440 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
441 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
442 being defined at that point to perform compares).
444 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
445 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
446 our resulting corlib.
448 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
450 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
451 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
452 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
453 now a good development tool.
455 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
456 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
457 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
458 bindings, that should simplify application development.
460 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
461 Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
465 I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
466 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
467 to promote free software is going very well.
469 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
471 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
472 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
474 On Monday Piers Haken <a
475 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
476 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
477 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
479 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
480 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
481 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
482 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
483 This means for example that any process can check on the
484 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
486 Of course, those interested
487 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
492 Duncan has written a few sample <a
493 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
495 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
497 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
499 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
500 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
502 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
507 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
508 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
510 Also, we are getting close to
511 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
512 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
513 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
515 Steam is picking up in <a
516 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
517 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
518 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
519 libraries, which is nice to see.
523 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
524 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
525 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
527 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
528 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
529 match the Microsoft implementation.
533 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
534 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
537 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
538 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
543 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
544 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
548 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
549 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
552 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
553 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
554 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
558 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
562 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
563 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
564 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
565 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
567 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
568 been checked into CVS.
570 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
571 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
573 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
574 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
575 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
579 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
580 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
581 that process this data.
583 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
584 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
588 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
589 System.Data class library.
594 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
595 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
597 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
598 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
599 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
600 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
604 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
605 on the Mono runtime. This <a
606 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
607 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
611 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
612 it is possible to get <a
613 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
614 number</a> information on stack traces.
618 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
619 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
620 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
622 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
623 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
625 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
626 compiling most of our regression test suite.
628 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
629 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
631 The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
632 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
634 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
638 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
640 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
645 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
646 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
647 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
649 You can find more information
650 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
652 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
653 and others for these bits.
657 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
658 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
659 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
660 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
661 should make it easier to use and compile.
663 This is another milestone for our <a
664 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
666 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
670 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
671 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
672 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
674 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
675 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
676 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
677 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
678 expose to applications.
681 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
682 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
684 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
689 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
690 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
694 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
695 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
696 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
698 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
703 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
704 fixes and more classes are included.
706 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
707 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
708 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
712 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
713 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
714 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
718 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
720 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
725 Some updates from the hacking lines:
727 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
728 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
729 is part of the ASP.NET support.
731 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
734 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
735 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
736 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
737 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
738 exceptions work). Check <a
739 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
742 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
743 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
745 Early this week Patrik started the string
746 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
747 constructors and deployed the new layout.
749 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
750 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
752 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
753 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
756 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
757 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
758 together are very powerful.
760 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
761 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
767 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
768 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
770 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
771 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
776 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
777 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
779 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
780 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
781 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
785 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
786 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
787 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
788 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
792 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
793 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
794 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
799 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
800 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
801 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
806 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
809 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
810 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
811 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
815 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
816 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
817 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
821 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
822 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
825 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
826 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
827 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
828 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
833 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
834 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
835 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
836 debugging information).
838 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
839 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
841 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
842 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
843 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
845 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
846 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
849 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
850 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
851 us to run the compiler on Linux.
853 Remember to post your bug reports.
855 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
856 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
857 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
858 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
862 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
863 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
864 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
866 A release will follow up shortly.
870 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
871 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
876 MCS compiles on Linux!
878 Today Paolo got the <a
879 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
880 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
881 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
882 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
883 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
884 speed was improved in 400%
886 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
888 Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
889 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
893 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>
895 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
896 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
897 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
899 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
900 revamped regression test suite.
902 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
903 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
905 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
906 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>
910 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
915 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
916 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
917 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
919 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
923 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
924 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
925 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
926 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
928 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
929 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
930 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
934 Paolo posted a list of <a
935 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
936 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
937 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
942 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
946 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
948 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
952 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
954 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
955 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
956 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
959 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
960 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
961 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
965 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
966 Self hosting is closer every day.
968 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
972 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
974 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
976 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
977 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
978 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
979 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
981 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
982 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
983 you will get one of the machines.
987 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
991 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
992 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
993 this with the --share-code command line option.
995 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
998 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1002 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1004 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1005 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1006 comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1007 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1008 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1010 Miguel is off to the <a
1011 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1015 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1017 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1018 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1021 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1022 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1023 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1027 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1028 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1031 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1032 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1035 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1036 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1037 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1038 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1040 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1041 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1042 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1045 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1046 a set of web server classes for <a
1047 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1048 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1051 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1052 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1056 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1057 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1058 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1063 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1064 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1068 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1070 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1071 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1073 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1074 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1075 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1076 set of the Perl regex engine).
1080 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1082 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1084 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1085 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1087 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1088 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1091 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1095 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1096 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1097 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1098 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1102 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1103 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1104 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1106 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1107 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1108 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1112 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1113 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1114 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1116 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1117 non-Windows platforms.
1119 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1120 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1121 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1122 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1127 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1128 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1129 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1130 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1135 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1136 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1137 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1140 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1141 compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
1146 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1147 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1148 year, new direction</i></a>.
1150 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1151 System.Windows.Forms.
1155 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1156 development of the compiler with itself.
1158 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1159 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1160 on Linux before the end of the month.
1162 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1163 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1164 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1168 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1169 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1170 being fixed quickly.
1172 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1176 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1178 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1180 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1181 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1183 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1184 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1189 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1190 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1192 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1193 implementation is there.
1197 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1198 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1199 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1200 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1201 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1202 reduce spills and reloads.
1204 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1205 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1206 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1207 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1209 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1211 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1212 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1217 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1218 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1219 Climent for helping to set this up.
1223 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1226 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1229 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1233 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1234 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1236 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1237 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1240 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1242 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1247 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1248 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1249 on Gtk# development.
1255 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1256 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1257 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1258 program is executed.
1260 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1261 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1264 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1265 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1266 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1268 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1269 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1270 made up of 40 tests).
1272 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1273 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1274 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1276 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1277 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1279 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1280 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1283 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1284 replace our interpreter in production.
1290 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1291 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1293 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1295 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1301 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1303 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1309 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1316 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1317 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1318 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1320 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
1323 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1325 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1326 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1327 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1328 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1329 important piece of the puzzle.
1335 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1337 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
1340 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1341 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1347 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
1348 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1349 the array handling support.
1355 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
1358 Some large recent developments:
1360 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1361 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1362 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1364 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1365 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1366 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1368 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1369 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1370 optimize foreach for the array case).
1372 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1373 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1374 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1375 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1376 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1377 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1378 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1379 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1381 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1382 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1388 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1389 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1390 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1392 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1393 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1394 recent C# compiler progress.
1400 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1401 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1407 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1408 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1410 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1411 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1412 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1413 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1415 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1422 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1423 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1425 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1427 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1428 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1435 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1436 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1437 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1438 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1440 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1441 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1442 basically focusing on completeness now.
1449 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1450 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1456 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1457 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1458 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1459 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1460 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1461 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1462 handled correctly (Miguel).
1468 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1469 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1470 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1471 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1472 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1478 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1479 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
1485 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1486 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1487 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1488 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1494 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1495 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1496 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1497 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1499 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1505 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1506 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1513 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1514 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1516 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1523 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1524 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1530 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1531 will let you run it.
1533 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
1534 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1536 Good work Mono team!
1542 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1543 are available here: <a
1544 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1550 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1552 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1553 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1559 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1560 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1561 without access to the <a
1562 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>
1568 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1569 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1575 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1576 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1577 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1583 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1584 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1585 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1591 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1592 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1593 get the new class libraries from <a
1594 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1600 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1601 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1602 get the new class libraries from <a
1603 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1609 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1610 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1611 get the new class libraries from <a
1612 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1614 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1616 Got Sean's new Class
1617 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1618 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1624 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1625 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1626 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1633 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1635 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1641 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1642 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1643 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1655 Brian posted a story on <a
1656 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>