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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 (the CLR) and a set of <a
13 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
23 href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
27 href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
28 and mono-announce-list
30 You can contact the team at: <a
31 href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
37 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
40 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
58 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
59 In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
64 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
67 Corlib is self hosting.
75 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
85 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
86 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
87 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
89 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
90 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
91 match the Microsoft implementation.
95 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
96 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
99 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
100 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
105 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
106 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
110 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
111 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
114 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
115 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
116 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
120 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
124 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
125 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
126 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
127 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
129 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
130 been checked into CVS.
132 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
133 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
135 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
136 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
137 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
141 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
142 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
143 that process this data.
145 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
146 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
150 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
151 System.Data class library.
156 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
157 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
159 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
160 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
161 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
162 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
166 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
167 on the Mono runtime. This <a
168 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
169 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
173 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
174 it is possible to get <a
175 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
176 number</a> information on stack traces.
180 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
181 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
182 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
184 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
185 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
187 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
188 compiling most of our regression test suite.
190 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
191 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
193 The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
194 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
196 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
200 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
202 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
207 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
208 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
209 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
211 You can find more information
212 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
214 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
215 and others for these bits.
219 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
220 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
221 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
222 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
223 should make it easier to use and compile.
225 This is another milestone for our <a
226 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
228 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
232 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
233 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
234 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
236 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
237 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
238 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
239 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
240 expose to applications.
243 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
244 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
246 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
251 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
252 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
256 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
257 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
258 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
260 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
265 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
266 fixes and more classes are included.
268 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
269 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
270 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
274 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
275 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
276 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
280 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
282 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
287 Some updates from the hacking lines:
289 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
290 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
291 is part of the ASP.NET support.
293 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
296 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
297 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
298 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
299 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
300 exceptions work). Check <a
301 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
304 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
305 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
307 Early this week Patrik started the string
308 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
309 constructors and deployed the new layout.
311 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
312 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
314 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
315 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
318 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
319 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
320 together are very powerful.
322 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
323 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
329 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
330 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
332 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
333 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
338 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
339 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
341 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
342 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
343 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
347 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
348 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
349 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
350 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
354 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
355 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
356 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
361 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
362 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
363 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
368 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
371 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
372 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
373 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
377 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
378 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
379 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
383 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
384 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
387 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
388 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
389 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
390 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
395 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
396 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
397 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
398 debugging information).
400 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
401 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
403 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
404 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
405 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
407 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
408 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
411 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
412 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
413 us to run the compiler on Linux.
415 Remember to post your bug reports.
417 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
418 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
419 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
420 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
424 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
425 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
426 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
428 A release will follow up shortly.
432 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
433 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
438 MCS compiles on Linux!
440 Today Paolo got the <a
441 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
442 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
443 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
444 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
445 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
446 speed was improved in 400%
448 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
450 Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
451 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
455 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>
457 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
458 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
459 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
461 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
462 revamped regression test suite.
464 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
465 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
467 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
468 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>
472 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
477 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
478 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
479 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
481 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
485 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
486 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
487 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
488 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
490 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
491 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
492 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
496 Paolo posted a list of <a
497 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
498 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
499 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
504 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
508 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
510 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
514 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
516 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
517 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
518 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
521 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
522 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
523 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
527 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
528 Self hosting is closer every day.
530 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
534 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
536 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
538 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
539 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
540 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
541 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
543 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
544 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
545 you will get one of the machines.
549 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
553 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
554 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
555 this with the --share-code command line option.
557 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
560 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
564 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
566 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
567 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
568 comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
569 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
570 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
572 Miguel is off to the <a
573 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
577 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
579 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
580 been packaged for your download pleasure.
583 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
584 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
585 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
589 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
590 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
593 An explanation of the relationship between <a
594 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
597 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
598 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
599 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
600 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
602 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
603 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
604 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
607 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
608 a set of web server classes for <a
609 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
613 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
614 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
618 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
619 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
620 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
625 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
626 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
630 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
632 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
633 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
635 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
636 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
637 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
638 set of the Perl regex engine).
642 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
644 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
646 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
647 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
649 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
650 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
653 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
657 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
658 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
659 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
660 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
664 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
665 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
666 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
668 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
669 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
670 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
674 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
675 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
676 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
678 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
679 non-Windows platforms.
681 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
682 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
683 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
684 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
689 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
690 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
691 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
692 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
697 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
698 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
699 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
702 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
703 compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
708 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
709 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
710 year, new direction</i></a>.
712 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
713 System.Windows.Forms.
717 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
718 development of the compiler with itself.
720 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
721 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
722 on Linux before the end of the month.
724 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
725 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
726 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
730 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
731 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
734 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
738 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
740 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
742 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
743 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
745 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
746 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
751 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
752 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
754 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
755 implementation is there.
759 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
760 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
761 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
762 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
763 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
764 reduce spills and reloads.
766 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
767 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
768 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
769 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
771 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
773 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
774 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
779 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
780 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
781 Climent for helping to set this up.
785 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
788 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
791 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
795 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
796 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
798 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
799 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
802 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
804 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
809 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
810 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
817 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
818 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
819 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
822 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
823 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
826 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
827 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
828 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
830 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
831 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
832 made up of 40 tests).
834 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
835 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
836 what Paolo has been working on lately).
838 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
839 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
841 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
842 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
845 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
846 replace our interpreter in production.
852 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
853 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
855 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
857 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
863 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
865 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
871 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
878 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
879 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
880 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
882 Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
885 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
887 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
888 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
889 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
890 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
891 important piece of the puzzle.
897 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
899 Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code
902 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
903 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
909 Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
910 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
911 the array handling support.
917 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
920 Some large recent developments:
922 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
923 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
924 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
926 Derek Holden commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
927 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
928 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
930 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
931 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
932 optimize foreach for the array case).
934 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
935 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
936 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
937 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
938 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
939 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
940 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
941 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
943 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
944 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
950 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
951 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
952 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
954 Ximian users around the world <!--a
955 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
956 recent C# compiler progress.
962 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
963 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
969 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
970 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
972 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
973 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
974 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
975 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
977 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
984 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
985 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
987 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
989 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
990 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
997 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
998 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
999 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1000 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1002 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1003 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1004 basically focusing on completeness now.
1011 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1012 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1018 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1019 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1020 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1021 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1022 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1023 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1024 handled correctly (Miguel).
1030 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1031 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1032 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1033 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1034 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1040 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1041 Mono</a> to othre architectures.
1047 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1048 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1049 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1050 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1056 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1057 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1058 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1059 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1061 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1067 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1068 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1075 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1076 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1078 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1085 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1086 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1092 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1093 will let you run it.
1095 Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
1096 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1098 Good work Mono team!
1104 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1105 are available here: <a
1106 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1112 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1114 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1115 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1121 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1122 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1123 without access to the <a
1124 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>
1130 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1131 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1137 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1138 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1139 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1145 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1146 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1147 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1153 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1154 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1155 get the new class libraries from <a
1156 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1162 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1163 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1164 get the new class libraries from <a
1165 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1171 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1172 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1173 get the new class libraries from <a
1174 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1176 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1178 Got Sean's new Class
1179 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1180 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1186 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1187 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1188 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1195 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1197 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1203 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1204 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1205 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1217 Brian posted a story on <a
1218 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>