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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
26 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
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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 Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
96 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
97 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
98 improved this to use implicit names as well.
100 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
101 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
102 per-thread basis now.
104 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
105 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
106 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
107 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
108 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
110 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
111 statements on the grammar.
113 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
114 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
116 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
119 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
120 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
121 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
122 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
124 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
125 and its available from our <a
126 href="download.html">download</a> page.
128 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
130 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
132 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
133 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
134 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
136 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
137 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
138 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
139 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
140 asp.net has been released as well.
142 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
144 This release also includes a new exception handling system
145 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
146 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
148 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
150 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
151 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
152 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
153 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
156 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
157 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
158 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
160 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
163 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
166 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
167 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
168 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
169 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
171 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
172 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
173 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
174 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
175 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
176 server on Unix using Mono.
178 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
179 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
180 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
181 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
183 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
184 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
185 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
186 new test application that people can use to test their
187 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
188 you can participate in the <a
189 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
192 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
193 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
195 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
198 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
199 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
201 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
202 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
203 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
204 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
206 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
208 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
209 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
211 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
212 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
214 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
215 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
216 new technology are <a
217 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
218 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
220 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
221 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
222 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
224 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
225 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
228 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
229 see Windows screenshots for it <a
230 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
231 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
233 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
236 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
237 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
239 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
240 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
241 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
243 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
245 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
246 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
249 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
251 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
252 in Open Office file format.
254 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
256 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
257 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
259 Tim Coleman posted an <a
260 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
261 on the improvements in the System.Data
263 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
264 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
266 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
268 Tim's SqlClient is <a
269 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
270 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
271 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
272 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
274 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
276 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
277 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
278 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
279 been working on the Security classes.
281 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
282 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
283 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
284 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
286 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
287 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
289 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
292 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
293 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
295 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
297 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
300 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
301 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
302 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
303 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
304 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
305 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
307 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
308 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
309 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
310 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
311 list</a> mailing list.
313 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
314 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
315 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
316 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
317 data adapter is also coming soon.
319 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
321 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
322 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
323 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
324 are not supported by the .NET framework.
326 Last week we created a new <a
327 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
328 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
330 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
331 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
334 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
336 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
337 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
338 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
339 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
340 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
341 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
342 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
343 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
344 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
345 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
347 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
348 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
349 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
350 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
351 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
352 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
353 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
354 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
357 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
359 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
360 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
361 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
363 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
364 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
366 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
367 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
368 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
369 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
370 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
371 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
372 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
374 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
375 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
376 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
377 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
378 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
381 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
382 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
383 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
384 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
385 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
386 Documentation Tools</a>.
388 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
390 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
391 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
392 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
393 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
395 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
396 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
397 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
398 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
399 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
400 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
401 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
402 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
403 configuration file `machine.config'.
405 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
407 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
409 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
410 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
411 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
414 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
415 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
416 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
417 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
418 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
420 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
422 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
423 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
425 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
426 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
427 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
428 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
429 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
430 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
433 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
435 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
436 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
437 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
439 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
440 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
441 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
442 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
445 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
447 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
448 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
451 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
453 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
454 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
455 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
458 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
459 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
460 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
461 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
462 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
463 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
466 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
468 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
469 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
470 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
471 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
472 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
473 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
475 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
476 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
477 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
479 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
480 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
481 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
482 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
483 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
484 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
485 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
486 on making a good UI in the future.
488 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
489 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
490 This is the substrate for implementing the
491 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
493 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
494 classes implementation.
496 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
497 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
498 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
499 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
500 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
503 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
506 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
507 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
508 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
509 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
510 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
511 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
512 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
513 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
515 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
518 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
519 announced an Apache module that hosts
520 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
521 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
524 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
526 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
527 released a fresh version of <a
528 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
529 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
531 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
533 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
534 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
535 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
537 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
539 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
540 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
541 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
544 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
545 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
548 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
550 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
552 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
553 on par with the PPC port.
555 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
556 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
557 code for the remoting infrastructure.
559 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
560 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
563 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
565 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
566 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
567 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
568 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
570 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
571 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
572 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
573 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
575 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
576 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
577 for structure marshaling.
579 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
580 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
581 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
582 to integrate with Patrik's code.
584 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
585 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
586 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
588 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
591 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
593 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
594 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
595 a successful free software project.
597 The first, deserved, entry goes to
598 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
599 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
600 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
601 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
603 @item Looking for volunteers
605 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
606 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
610 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
612 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
613 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
614 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
615 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
616 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
618 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
619 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
620 library documentation.
622 We have some special needs (read them <a
623 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
624 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
625 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
626 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
628 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
629 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
630 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
633 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
634 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
635 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
638 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
640 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
641 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
642 assignment in the C# language.
644 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
647 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
648 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
649 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
651 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
652 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
653 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
655 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
656 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
657 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
659 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
662 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
663 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
664 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
666 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
668 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
669 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
670 your sources for the <a
671 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
672 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
674 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
675 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
676 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
677 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
678 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
680 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
682 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
683 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
685 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
686 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
687 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
688 associated web service tools.
690 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
692 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
694 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
695 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
697 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
698 has been translated as well.
700 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
702 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
703 now landed on the CVS repository.
705 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
706 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
707 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
708 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
711 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
712 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
713 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
717 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
718 available online, from young director <a
719 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
720 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
723 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
724 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
726 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
727 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
728 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
729 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
731 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
732 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
733 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
737 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
738 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
739 compiler and the Mono runtime.
741 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
742 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
743 from the source code it is compiling.
745 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
746 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
747 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
751 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
752 The resulting image contained errors though.
754 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
755 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
757 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
758 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
759 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
761 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
762 run the compiler on Linux.
764 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
765 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
767 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
768 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
769 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
771 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
772 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
775 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
776 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
777 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
779 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
780 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
781 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
782 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
783 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
784 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
785 code is cross platform.
789 Ajay was the first to notice <a
790 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
791 Mono's first birthday</a>.
793 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
795 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
796 * A complete CLI implementation:
798 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
799 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
801 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
802 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
803 * 92,000 lines of C code.
804 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
805 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
806 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
807 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
808 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
811 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
812 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
813 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
814 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
815 been possible without every contribution.
817 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
818 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
820 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
821 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
822 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
823 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
824 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
825 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
826 to integrate with other object systems.
828 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
829 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
830 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
833 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
834 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
835 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
836 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
841 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
844 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
845 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
846 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
847 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
848 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
849 applications like these in the near future.
851 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
852 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
853 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
854 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
855 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
856 architecture independent layer.
858 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
859 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
860 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
861 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
862 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
863 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
864 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
865 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
866 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
869 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
870 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
875 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
876 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
877 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
879 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
880 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
882 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
883 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
884 applications with it. Details are <a
885 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
887 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
891 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
892 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
893 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
894 being defined at that point to perform compares).
896 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
897 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
898 our resulting corlib.
900 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
902 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
903 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
904 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
905 now a good development tool.
907 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
908 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
909 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
910 bindings, that should simplify application development.
912 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
913 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
917 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
918 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
919 to promote free software is going very well.
921 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
923 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
924 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
926 On Monday Piers Haken <a
927 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
928 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
929 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
931 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
932 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
933 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
934 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
935 This means for example that any process can check on the
936 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
938 Of course, those interested
939 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
944 Duncan has written a few sample <a
945 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
947 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
949 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
951 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
952 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
954 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
959 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
960 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
962 Also, we are getting close to
963 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
964 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
965 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
967 Steam is picking up in <a
968 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
969 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
970 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
971 libraries, which is nice to see.
975 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
976 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
977 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
979 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
980 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
981 match the Microsoft implementation.
985 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
986 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
989 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
990 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
995 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
996 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1000 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1001 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1004 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1005 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1006 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1010 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1014 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1015 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1016 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1017 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1019 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1020 been checked into CVS.
1022 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1023 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1025 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1026 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1027 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1031 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1032 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1033 that process this data.
1035 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1036 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1040 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1041 System.Data class library.
1046 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1047 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1049 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1050 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1051 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1052 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1056 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1057 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1058 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1059 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1063 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1064 it is possible to get <a
1065 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1066 number</a> information on stack traces.
1070 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1071 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1072 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1074 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1075 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1077 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1078 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1080 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1081 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1083 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1084 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1086 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1090 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1092 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1097 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1098 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1099 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1101 You can find more information
1102 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1104 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1105 and others for these bits.
1109 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1110 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1111 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1112 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1113 should make it easier to use and compile.
1115 This is another milestone for our <a
1116 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1118 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1122 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1123 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1124 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1126 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1127 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1128 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1129 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1130 expose to applications.
1133 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1134 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1135 support</a>, Mike <a
1136 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1141 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1142 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1146 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1147 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1148 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1150 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1155 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1156 fixes and more classes are included.
1158 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1159 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1160 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1164 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1165 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1166 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1170 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1172 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1177 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1179 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1180 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1181 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1183 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1186 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1187 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1188 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1189 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1190 exceptions work). Check <a
1191 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1194 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1195 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1197 Early this week Patrik started the string
1198 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1199 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1201 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1202 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1204 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1205 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1208 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1209 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1210 together are very powerful.
1212 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1213 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1219 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1220 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1222 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1223 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1228 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1229 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1231 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1232 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1233 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1237 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1238 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1239 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1240 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1244 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1245 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1246 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1251 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1252 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1253 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1258 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1261 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1262 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1263 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1267 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1268 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1269 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1273 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1274 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1277 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1278 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1279 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1280 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1285 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1286 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1287 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1288 debugging information).
1290 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1291 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1293 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1294 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1295 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1297 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1298 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1301 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1302 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1303 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1305 Remember to post your bug reports.
1307 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1308 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1309 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1310 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1314 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1315 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1316 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1318 A release will follow up shortly.
1322 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1323 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1328 MCS compiles on Linux!
1330 Today Paolo got the <a
1331 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1332 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1333 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1334 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1335 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1336 speed was improved in 400%
1338 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1340 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1341 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1345 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>
1347 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1348 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1349 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1351 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1352 revamped regression test suite.
1354 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1355 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1357 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1358 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>
1362 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1367 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1368 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1369 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1371 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1375 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1376 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1377 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1378 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1380 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1381 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1382 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1386 Paolo posted a list of <a
1387 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1388 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1389 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1394 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1398 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1400 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1404 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1406 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1407 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1408 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1411 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1412 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1413 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1417 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1418 Self hosting is closer every day.
1420 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1424 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1426 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1428 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1429 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1430 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1431 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1433 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1434 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1435 you will get one of the machines.
1439 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1443 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1444 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1445 this with the --share-code command line option.
1447 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1450 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1454 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1456 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1457 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1458 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1459 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1460 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1462 Miguel is off to the <a
1463 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1467 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1469 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1470 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1473 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1474 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1475 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1479 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1480 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1483 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1484 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1487 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1488 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1489 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1490 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1492 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1493 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1494 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1497 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1498 a set of web server classes for <a
1499 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1500 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1503 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1504 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1508 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1509 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1510 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1515 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1516 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1520 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1522 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1523 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1525 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1526 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1527 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1528 set of the Perl regex engine).
1532 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1534 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1536 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1537 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1539 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1540 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1543 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1547 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1548 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1549 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1550 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1554 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1555 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1556 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1558 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1559 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1560 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1564 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1565 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1566 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1568 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1569 non-Windows platforms.
1571 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1572 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1573 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1574 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1579 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1580 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1581 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1582 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1587 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1588 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1589 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1592 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1593 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1598 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1599 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1600 year, new direction</i></a>.
1602 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1603 System.Windows.Forms.
1607 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1608 development of the compiler with itself.
1610 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1611 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1612 on Linux before the end of the month.
1614 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1615 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1616 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1620 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1621 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1622 being fixed quickly.
1624 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1628 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1630 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1632 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1633 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1635 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1636 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1641 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1642 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1644 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1645 implementation is there.
1649 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1650 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1651 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1652 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1653 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1654 reduce spills and reloads.
1656 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1657 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1658 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1659 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1661 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1663 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1664 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1669 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1670 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1671 Climent for helping to set this up.
1675 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1678 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1681 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1685 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1686 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1688 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1689 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1692 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1694 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1699 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1700 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1701 on Gtk# development.
1707 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1708 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1709 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1710 program is executed.
1712 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1713 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1716 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1717 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1718 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1720 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1721 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1722 made up of 40 tests).
1724 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1725 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1726 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1728 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1729 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1731 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1732 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1735 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1736 replace our interpreter in production.
1742 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1743 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1745 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1747 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1753 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1755 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1761 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1768 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1769 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1770 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1772 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1775 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1777 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1778 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1779 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1780 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1781 important piece of the puzzle.
1787 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1789 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1792 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1793 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1799 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1800 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1801 the array handling support.
1807 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1810 Some large recent developments:
1812 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1813 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1814 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1816 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1817 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1818 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1820 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1821 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1822 optimize foreach for the array case).
1824 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1825 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1826 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1827 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1828 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1829 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1830 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1831 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1833 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1834 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1840 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1841 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1842 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1844 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1845 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1846 recent C# compiler progress.
1852 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1853 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1859 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1860 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1862 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1863 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1864 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1865 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1867 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1874 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1875 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1877 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1879 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1880 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1887 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1888 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1889 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1890 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1892 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1893 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1894 basically focusing on completeness now.
1901 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1902 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1908 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1909 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1910 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1911 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1912 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1913 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1914 handled correctly (Miguel).
1920 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1921 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1922 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1923 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1924 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1930 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1931 Mono</a> to other architectures.
1937 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1938 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1939 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1940 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1946 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1947 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1948 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1949 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1951 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1957 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1958 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1965 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1966 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1968 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1975 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1976 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1982 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1983 will let you run it.
1985 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
1986 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1988 Good work Mono team!
1994 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1995 are available here: <a
1996 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2002 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2004 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2005 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2011 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2012 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2013 without access to the <a
2014 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>
2020 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2021 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2027 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2028 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2029 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2035 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2036 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2037 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2043 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2044 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2045 get the new class libraries from <a
2046 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2052 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2053 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2054 get the new class libraries from <a
2055 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2061 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2062 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2063 get the new class libraries from <a
2064 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2066 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2068 Got Sean's new Class
2069 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2070 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2076 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2077 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2078 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2085 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2087 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2093 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2094 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2095 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2107 Brian posted a story on <a
2108 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>