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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
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42 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
47 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
50 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
68 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
75 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
78 All assemblies compile.
86 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
94 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
96 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
97 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
100 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
101 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
102 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
103 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
104 asp.net has been released as well.
106 This release also includes a new exception handling system
107 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
108 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
110 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
112 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
113 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
114 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
115 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
118 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
119 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
120 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
122 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
125 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
128 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
129 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
130 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
131 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
133 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
134 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
135 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
136 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
137 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
138 server on Unix using Mono.
140 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
141 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
142 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
143 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
145 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
146 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
147 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
148 new test application that people can use to test their
149 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
150 you can participate in the <a
151 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
154 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
155 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
157 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
160 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
161 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
163 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
164 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
165 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
166 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
168 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
170 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
171 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
173 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
174 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
176 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
177 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
178 new technology are <a
179 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
180 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
182 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
183 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
184 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
186 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
187 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
190 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
191 see Windows screenshots for it <a
192 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
193 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
195 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
198 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
199 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
201 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
202 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
203 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
205 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
207 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
208 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
211 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
213 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
214 in Open Office file format.
216 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
218 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
219 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
221 Tim Coleman posted an <a
222 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
223 on the improvements in the System.Data
225 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
226 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
228 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
230 Tim's SqlClient is <a
231 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
232 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
233 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
234 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
236 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
238 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
239 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
240 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
241 been working on the Security classes.
243 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
244 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
245 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
246 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
248 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
249 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
251 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
254 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
255 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
257 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
259 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
262 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
263 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
264 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
265 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
266 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
267 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
269 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
270 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
271 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
272 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
273 list</a> mailing list.
275 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
276 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
277 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
278 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
279 data adapter is also coming soon.
281 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
283 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
284 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
285 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
286 are not supported by the .NET framework.
288 Last week we created a new <a
289 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
290 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
292 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
293 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
296 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
298 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
299 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
300 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
301 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
302 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
303 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
304 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
305 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
306 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
307 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
309 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
310 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
311 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
312 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
313 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
314 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
315 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
316 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
319 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
321 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
322 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
323 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
325 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
326 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
328 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
329 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
330 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
331 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
332 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
333 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
334 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
336 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
337 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
338 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
339 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
340 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
343 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
344 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
345 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
346 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
347 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
348 Documentation Tools</a>.
350 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
352 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
353 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
354 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
355 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
357 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
358 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
359 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
360 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
361 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
362 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
363 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
364 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
365 configuration file `machine.config'.
367 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
369 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
371 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
372 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
373 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
376 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
377 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
378 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
379 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
380 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
382 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
384 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
385 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
387 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
388 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
389 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
390 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
391 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
392 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
395 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
397 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
398 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
399 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
401 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
402 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
403 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
404 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
407 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
409 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
410 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
413 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
415 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
416 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
417 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
420 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
421 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
422 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
423 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
424 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
425 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
428 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
430 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
431 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
432 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
433 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
434 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
435 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
437 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
438 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
439 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
441 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
442 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
443 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
444 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
445 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
446 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
447 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
448 on making a good UI in the future.
450 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
451 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
452 This is the substrate for implementing the
453 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
455 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
456 classes implementation.
458 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
459 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
460 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
461 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
462 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
465 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
468 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
469 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
470 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
471 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
472 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
473 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
474 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
475 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
477 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
480 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
481 announced an Apache module that hosts
482 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
483 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
486 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
488 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
489 released a fresh version of <a
490 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
491 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
493 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
495 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
496 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
497 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
499 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
501 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
502 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
503 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
506 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
507 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
510 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
512 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
513 on par with the PPC port.
515 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
516 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
517 code for the remoting infrastructure.
519 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
520 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
523 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
525 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
526 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
527 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
528 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
530 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
531 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
532 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
533 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
535 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
536 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
537 for structure marshaling.
539 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
540 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
541 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
542 to integrate with Patrik's code.
544 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
545 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
546 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
548 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
551 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
553 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
554 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
555 a successful free software project.
557 The first, deserved, entry goes to
558 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
559 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
560 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
561 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
563 @item Looking for volunteers
565 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
566 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
570 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
572 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
573 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
574 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
575 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
576 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
578 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
579 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
580 library documentation.
582 We have some special needs (read them <a
583 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
584 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
585 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
586 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
588 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
589 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
590 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
593 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
594 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
595 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
598 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
600 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
601 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
602 assignment in the C# language.
604 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
607 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
608 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
609 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
611 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
612 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
613 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
615 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
616 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
617 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
619 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
622 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
623 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
624 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
626 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
628 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
629 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
630 your sources for the <a
631 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
632 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
634 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
635 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
636 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
637 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
638 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
640 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
642 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
643 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
645 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
646 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
647 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
648 associated web service tools.
650 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
652 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
654 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
655 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
657 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
658 has been translated as well.
660 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
662 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
663 now landed on the CVS repository.
665 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
666 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
667 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
668 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
671 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
672 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
673 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
677 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
678 available online, from young director <a
679 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
680 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
683 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
684 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
686 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
687 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
688 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
689 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
691 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
692 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
693 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
697 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
698 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
699 compiler and the Mono runtime.
701 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
702 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
703 from the source code it is compiling.
705 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
706 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
707 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
711 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
712 The resulting image contained errors though.
714 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
715 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
717 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
718 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
719 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
721 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
722 run the compiler on Linux.
724 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
725 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
727 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
728 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
729 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
731 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
732 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
735 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
736 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
737 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
739 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
740 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
741 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
742 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
743 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
744 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
745 code is cross platform.
749 Ajay was the first to notice <a
750 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
751 Mono's first birthday</a>.
753 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
755 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
756 * A complete CLI implementation:
758 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
759 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
761 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
762 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
763 * 92,000 lines of C code.
764 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
765 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
766 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
767 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
768 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
771 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
772 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
773 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
774 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
775 been possible without every contribution.
777 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
778 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
780 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
781 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
782 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
783 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
784 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
785 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
786 to integrate with other object systems.
788 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
789 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
790 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
793 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
794 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
795 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
796 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
801 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
804 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
805 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
806 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
807 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
808 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
809 applications like these in the near future.
811 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
812 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
813 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
814 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
815 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
816 architecture independent layer.
818 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
819 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
820 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
821 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
822 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
823 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
824 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
825 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
826 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
829 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
830 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
835 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
836 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
837 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
839 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
840 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
842 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
843 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
844 applications with it. Details are <a
845 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
847 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
851 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
852 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
853 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
854 being defined at that point to perform compares).
856 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
857 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
858 our resulting corlib.
860 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
862 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
863 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
864 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
865 now a good development tool.
867 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
868 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
869 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
870 bindings, that should simplify application development.
872 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
873 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
877 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
878 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
879 to promote free software is going very well.
881 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
883 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
884 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
886 On Monday Piers Haken <a
887 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
888 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
889 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
891 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
892 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
893 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
894 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
895 This means for example that any process can check on the
896 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
898 Of course, those interested
899 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
904 Duncan has written a few sample <a
905 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
907 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
909 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
911 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
912 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
914 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
919 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
920 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
922 Also, we are getting close to
923 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
924 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
925 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
927 Steam is picking up in <a
928 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
929 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
930 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
931 libraries, which is nice to see.
935 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
936 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
937 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
939 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
940 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
941 match the Microsoft implementation.
945 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
946 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
949 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
950 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
955 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
956 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
960 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
961 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
964 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
965 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
966 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
970 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
974 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
975 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
976 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
977 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
979 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
980 been checked into CVS.
982 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
983 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
985 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
986 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
987 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
991 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
992 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
993 that process this data.
995 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
996 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1000 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1001 System.Data class library.
1006 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1007 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1009 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1010 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1011 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1012 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1016 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1017 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1018 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1019 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1023 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1024 it is possible to get <a
1025 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1026 number</a> information on stack traces.
1030 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1031 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1032 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1034 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1035 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1037 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1038 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1040 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1041 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1043 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1044 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1046 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1050 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1052 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1057 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1058 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1059 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1061 You can find more information
1062 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1064 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1065 and others for these bits.
1069 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1070 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1071 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1072 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1073 should make it easier to use and compile.
1075 This is another milestone for our <a
1076 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1078 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1082 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1083 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1084 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1086 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1087 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1088 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1089 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1090 expose to applications.
1093 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1094 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1095 support</a>, Mike <a
1096 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1101 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1102 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1106 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1107 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1108 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1110 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1115 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1116 fixes and more classes are included.
1118 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1119 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1120 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1124 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1125 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1126 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1130 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1132 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1137 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1139 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1140 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1141 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1143 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1146 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1147 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1148 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1149 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1150 exceptions work). Check <a
1151 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1154 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1155 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1157 Early this week Patrik started the string
1158 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1159 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1161 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1162 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1164 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1165 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1168 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1169 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1170 together are very powerful.
1172 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1173 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1179 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1180 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1182 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1183 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1188 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1189 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1191 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1192 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1193 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1197 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1198 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1199 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1200 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1204 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1205 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1206 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1211 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1212 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1213 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1218 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1221 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1222 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1223 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1227 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1228 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1229 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1233 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1234 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1237 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1238 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1239 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1240 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1245 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1246 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1247 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1248 debugging information).
1250 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1251 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1253 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1254 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1255 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1257 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1258 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1261 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1262 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1263 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1265 Remember to post your bug reports.
1267 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1268 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1269 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1270 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1274 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1275 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1276 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1278 A release will follow up shortly.
1282 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1283 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1288 MCS compiles on Linux!
1290 Today Paolo got the <a
1291 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1292 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1293 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1294 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1295 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1296 speed was improved in 400%
1298 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1300 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1301 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1305 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>
1307 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1308 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1309 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1311 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1312 revamped regression test suite.
1314 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1315 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1317 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1318 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>
1322 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1327 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1328 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1329 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1331 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1335 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1336 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1337 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1338 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1340 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1341 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1342 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1346 Paolo posted a list of <a
1347 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1348 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1349 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1354 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1358 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1360 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1364 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1366 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1367 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1368 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1371 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1372 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1373 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1377 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1378 Self hosting is closer every day.
1380 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1384 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1386 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1388 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1389 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1390 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1391 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1393 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1394 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1395 you will get one of the machines.
1399 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1403 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1404 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1405 this with the --share-code command line option.
1407 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1410 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1414 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1416 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1417 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1418 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1419 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1420 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1422 Miguel is off to the <a
1423 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1427 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1429 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1430 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1433 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1434 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1435 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1439 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1440 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1443 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1444 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1447 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1448 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1449 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1450 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1452 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1453 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1454 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1457 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1458 a set of web server classes for <a
1459 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1460 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1463 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1464 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1468 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1469 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1470 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1475 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1476 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1480 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1482 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1483 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1485 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1486 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1487 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1488 set of the Perl regex engine).
1492 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1494 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1496 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1497 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1499 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1500 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1503 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1507 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1508 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1509 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1510 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1514 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1515 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1516 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1518 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1519 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1520 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1524 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1525 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1526 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1528 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1529 non-Windows platforms.
1531 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1532 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1533 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1534 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1539 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1540 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1541 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1542 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1547 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1548 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1549 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1552 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1553 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1558 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1559 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1560 year, new direction</i></a>.
1562 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1563 System.Windows.Forms.
1567 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1568 development of the compiler with itself.
1570 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1571 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1572 on Linux before the end of the month.
1574 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1575 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1576 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1580 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1581 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1582 being fixed quickly.
1584 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1588 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1590 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1592 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1593 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1595 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1596 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1601 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1602 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1604 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1605 implementation is there.
1609 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1610 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1611 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1612 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1613 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1614 reduce spills and reloads.
1616 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1617 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1618 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1619 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1621 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1623 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1624 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1629 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1630 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1631 Climent for helping to set this up.
1635 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1638 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1641 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1645 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1646 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1648 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1649 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1652 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1654 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1659 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1660 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1661 on Gtk# development.
1667 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1668 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1669 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1670 program is executed.
1672 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1673 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1676 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1677 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1678 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1680 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1681 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1682 made up of 40 tests).
1684 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1685 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1686 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1688 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1689 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1691 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1692 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1695 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1696 replace our interpreter in production.
1702 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1703 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1705 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1707 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1713 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1715 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1721 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1728 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1729 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1730 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1732 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1735 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1737 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1738 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1739 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1740 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1741 important piece of the puzzle.
1747 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1749 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1752 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1753 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1759 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1760 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1761 the array handling support.
1767 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1770 Some large recent developments:
1772 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1773 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1774 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1776 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1777 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1778 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1780 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1781 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1782 optimize foreach for the array case).
1784 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1785 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1786 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1787 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1788 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1789 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1790 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1791 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1793 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1794 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1800 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1801 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1802 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1804 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1805 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1806 recent C# compiler progress.
1812 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1813 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1819 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1820 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1822 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1823 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1824 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1825 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1827 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1834 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1835 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1837 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1839 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1840 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1847 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1848 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1849 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1850 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1852 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1853 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1854 basically focusing on completeness now.
1861 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1862 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1868 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1869 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1870 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1871 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1872 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1873 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1874 handled correctly (Miguel).
1880 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1881 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1882 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1883 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1884 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1890 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1891 Mono</a> to other architectures.
1897 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1898 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1899 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1900 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1906 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1907 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1908 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1909 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1911 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1917 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1918 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1925 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1926 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1928 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1935 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1936 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1942 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1943 will let you run it.
1945 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
1946 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1948 Good work Mono team!
1954 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1955 are available here: <a
1956 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1962 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1964 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1965 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1971 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1972 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1973 without access to the <a
1974 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>
1980 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1981 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1987 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1988 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1989 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1995 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1996 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1997 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2003 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2004 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2005 get the new class libraries from <a
2006 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2012 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2013 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2014 get the new class libraries from <a
2015 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2021 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2022 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2023 get the new class libraries from <a
2024 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2026 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2028 Got Sean's new Class
2029 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2030 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2036 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2037 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2038 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2045 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2047 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2053 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2054 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2055 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2067 Brian posted a story on <a
2068 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>