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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>.
15 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
16 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
17 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
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20 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
21 source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
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37 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
42 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
45 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
63 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
70 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
73 All assemblies compile.
81 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
89 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
91 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
92 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
94 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
95 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
97 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
98 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
100 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
101 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
103 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
104 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
105 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
107 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
108 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
111 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
112 see Windows screenshots for it <a
113 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
114 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
116 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
119 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
120 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
122 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
123 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
124 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
126 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
128 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
129 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
132 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
134 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
135 in Open Office file format.
137 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
139 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
140 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
142 Tim Coleman posted an <a
143 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
144 on the improvements in the System.Data
146 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
147 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
149 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
151 Tim's SqlClient is <a
152 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
153 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
154 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
155 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
157 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
159 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
160 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
161 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
162 been working on the Security classes.
164 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
165 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
166 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
167 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
169 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
170 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
172 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
175 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
176 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
178 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
180 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
183 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
184 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
185 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
186 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
187 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
188 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
190 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
191 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
192 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
193 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
194 list</a> mailing list.
196 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
197 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
198 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
199 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
200 data adapter is also coming soon.
202 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
204 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
205 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
206 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
207 are not supported by the .NET framework.
209 Last week we created a new <a
210 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
211 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
213 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
214 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
217 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
219 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
220 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
221 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
222 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
223 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
224 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
225 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
226 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
227 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
228 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
230 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
231 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
232 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
233 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
234 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
235 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
236 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
237 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
240 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
242 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
243 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
244 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
246 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
247 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
249 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
250 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
251 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
252 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
253 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
254 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
255 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
257 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
258 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
259 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
260 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
261 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
264 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
265 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
266 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
267 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
268 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
269 Documentation Tools</a>.
271 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
273 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
274 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
275 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
276 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
278 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
279 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
280 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
281 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
282 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
283 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
284 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
285 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
286 configuration file `machine.config'.
288 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
290 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
292 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
293 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
294 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
297 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
298 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
299 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
300 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
301 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
303 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
305 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
306 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
308 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
309 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
310 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
311 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
312 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
313 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
316 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
318 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
319 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
320 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
322 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
323 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
324 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
325 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
328 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
330 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
331 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
334 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
336 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
337 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
338 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
341 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
342 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
343 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
344 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
345 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
346 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
349 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
351 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
352 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
353 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
354 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
355 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
356 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
358 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
359 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
360 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
362 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
363 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
364 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
365 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
366 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
367 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
368 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
369 on making a good UI in the future.
371 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
372 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
373 This is the substrate for implementing the
374 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
376 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
377 classes implementation.
379 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
380 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
381 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
382 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
383 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
386 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
389 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
390 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
391 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
392 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
393 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
394 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
395 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
396 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
398 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
401 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
402 announced an Apache module that hosts
403 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
404 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
407 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
409 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
410 released a fresh version of <a
411 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
412 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
414 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
416 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
417 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
418 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
420 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
422 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
423 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
424 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
427 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
428 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
431 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
433 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
434 on par with the PPC port.
436 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
437 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
438 code for the remoting infrastructure.
440 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
441 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
444 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
446 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
447 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
448 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
449 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
451 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
452 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
453 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
454 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
456 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
457 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
458 for structure marshaling.
460 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
461 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
462 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
463 to integrate with Patrik's code.
465 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
466 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
467 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
469 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
472 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
474 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
475 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
476 a successful free software project.
478 The first, deserved, entry goes to
479 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
480 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
481 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
482 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
484 @item Looking for volunteers
486 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
487 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
491 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
493 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
494 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
495 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
496 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
497 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
499 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
500 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
501 library documentation.
503 We have some special needs (read them <a
504 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
505 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
506 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
507 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
509 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
510 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
511 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
514 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
515 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
516 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
519 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
521 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
522 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
523 assignment in the C# language.
525 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
528 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
529 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
530 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
532 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
533 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
534 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
536 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
537 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
538 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
540 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
543 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
544 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
545 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
547 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
549 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
550 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
551 your sources for the <a
552 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
553 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
555 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
556 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
557 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
558 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
559 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
561 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
563 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
564 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
566 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
567 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
568 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
569 associated web service tools.
571 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
573 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
575 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
576 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
578 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
579 has been translated as well.
581 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
583 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
584 now landed on the CVS repository.
586 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
587 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
588 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
589 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
592 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
593 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
594 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
598 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
599 available online, from young director <a
600 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
601 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
604 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
605 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
607 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
608 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
609 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
610 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
612 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
613 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
614 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
618 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
619 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
620 compiler and the Mono runtime.
622 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
623 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
624 from the source code it is compiling.
626 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
627 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
628 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
632 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
633 The resulting image contained errors though.
635 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
636 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
638 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
639 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
640 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
642 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
643 run the compiler on Linux.
645 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
646 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
648 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
649 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
650 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
652 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
653 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
656 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
657 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
658 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
660 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
661 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
662 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
663 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
664 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
665 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
666 code is cross platform.
670 Ajay was the first to notice <a
671 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
672 Mono's first birthday</a>.
674 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
676 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
677 * A complete CLI implementation:
679 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
680 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
682 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
683 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
684 * 92,000 lines of C code.
685 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
686 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
687 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
688 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
689 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
692 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
693 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
694 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
695 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
696 been possible without every contribution.
698 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
699 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
701 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
702 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
703 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
704 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
705 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
706 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
707 to integrate with other object systems.
709 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
710 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
711 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
714 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
715 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
716 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
717 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
722 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
725 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
726 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
727 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
728 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
729 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
730 applications like these in the near future.
732 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
733 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
734 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
735 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
736 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
737 architecture independent layer.
739 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
740 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
741 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
742 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
743 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
744 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
745 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
746 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
747 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
750 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
751 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
756 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
757 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
758 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
760 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
761 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
763 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
764 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
765 applications with it. Details are <a
766 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
768 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
772 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
773 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
774 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
775 being defined at that point to perform compares).
777 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
778 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
779 our resulting corlib.
781 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
783 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
784 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
785 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
786 now a good development tool.
788 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
789 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
790 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
791 bindings, that should simplify application development.
793 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
794 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
798 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
799 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
800 to promote free software is going very well.
802 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
804 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
805 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
807 On Monday Piers Haken <a
808 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
809 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
810 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
812 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
813 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
814 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
815 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
816 This means for example that any process can check on the
817 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
819 Of course, those interested
820 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
825 Duncan has written a few sample <a
826 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
828 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
830 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
832 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
833 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
835 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
840 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
841 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
843 Also, we are getting close to
844 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
845 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
846 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
848 Steam is picking up in <a
849 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
850 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
851 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
852 libraries, which is nice to see.
856 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
857 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
858 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
860 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
861 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
862 match the Microsoft implementation.
866 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
867 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
870 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
871 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
876 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
877 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
881 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
882 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
885 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
886 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
887 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
891 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
895 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
896 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
897 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
898 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
900 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
901 been checked into CVS.
903 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
904 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
906 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
907 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
908 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
912 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
913 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
914 that process this data.
916 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
917 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
921 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
922 System.Data class library.
927 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
928 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
930 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
931 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
932 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
933 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
937 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
938 on the Mono runtime. This <a
939 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
940 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
944 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
945 it is possible to get <a
946 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
947 number</a> information on stack traces.
951 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
952 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
953 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
955 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
956 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
958 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
959 compiling most of our regression test suite.
961 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
962 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
964 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
965 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
967 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
971 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
973 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
978 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
979 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
980 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
982 You can find more information
983 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
985 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
986 and others for these bits.
990 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
991 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
992 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
993 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
994 should make it easier to use and compile.
996 This is another milestone for our <a
997 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
999 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1003 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1004 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1005 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1007 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1008 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1009 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1010 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1011 expose to applications.
1014 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1015 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1016 support</a>, Mike <a
1017 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1022 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1023 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1027 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1028 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1029 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1031 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1036 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1037 fixes and more classes are included.
1039 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1040 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1041 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1045 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1046 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1047 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1051 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1053 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1058 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1060 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1061 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1062 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1064 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1067 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1068 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1069 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1070 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1071 exceptions work). Check <a
1072 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1075 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1076 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1078 Early this week Patrik started the string
1079 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1080 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1082 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1083 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1085 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1086 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1089 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1090 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1091 together are very powerful.
1093 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1094 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1100 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1101 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1103 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1104 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1109 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1110 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1112 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1113 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1114 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1118 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1119 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1120 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1121 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1125 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1126 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1127 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1132 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1133 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1134 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1139 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1142 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1143 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1144 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1148 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1149 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1150 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1154 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1155 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1158 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1159 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1160 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1161 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1166 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1167 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1168 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1169 debugging information).
1171 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1172 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1174 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1175 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1176 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1178 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1179 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1182 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1183 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1184 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1186 Remember to post your bug reports.
1188 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1189 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1190 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1191 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1195 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1196 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1197 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1199 A release will follow up shortly.
1203 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1204 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1209 MCS compiles on Linux!
1211 Today Paolo got the <a
1212 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1213 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1214 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1215 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1216 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1217 speed was improved in 400%
1219 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1221 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1222 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1226 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>
1228 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1229 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1230 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1232 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1233 revamped regression test suite.
1235 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1236 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1238 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1239 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>
1243 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1248 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1249 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1250 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1252 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1256 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1257 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1258 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1259 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1261 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1262 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1263 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1267 Paolo posted a list of <a
1268 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1269 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1270 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1275 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1279 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1281 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1285 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1287 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1288 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1289 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1292 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1293 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1294 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1298 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1299 Self hosting is closer every day.
1301 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1305 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1307 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1309 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1310 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1311 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1312 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1314 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1315 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1316 you will get one of the machines.
1320 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1324 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1325 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1326 this with the --share-code command line option.
1328 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1331 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1335 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1337 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1338 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1339 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1340 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1341 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1343 Miguel is off to the <a
1344 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1348 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1350 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1351 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1354 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1355 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1356 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1360 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1361 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1364 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1365 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1368 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1369 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1370 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1371 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1373 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1374 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1375 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1378 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1379 a set of web server classes for <a
1380 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1381 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1384 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1385 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1389 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1390 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1391 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1396 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1397 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1401 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1403 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1404 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1406 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1407 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1408 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1409 set of the Perl regex engine).
1413 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1415 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1417 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1418 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1420 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1421 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1424 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1428 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1429 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1430 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1431 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1435 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1436 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1437 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1439 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1440 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1441 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1445 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1446 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1447 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1449 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1450 non-Windows platforms.
1452 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1453 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1454 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1455 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1460 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1461 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1462 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1463 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1468 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1469 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1470 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1473 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1474 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1479 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1480 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1481 year, new direction</i></a>.
1483 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1484 System.Windows.Forms.
1488 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1489 development of the compiler with itself.
1491 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1492 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1493 on Linux before the end of the month.
1495 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1496 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1497 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1501 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1502 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1503 being fixed quickly.
1505 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1509 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1511 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1513 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1514 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1516 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1517 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1522 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1523 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1525 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1526 implementation is there.
1530 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1531 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1532 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1533 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1534 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1535 reduce spills and reloads.
1537 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1538 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1539 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1540 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1542 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1544 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1545 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1550 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1551 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1552 Climent for helping to set this up.
1556 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1559 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1562 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1566 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1567 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1569 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1570 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1573 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1575 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1580 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1581 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1582 on Gtk# development.
1588 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1589 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1590 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1591 program is executed.
1593 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1594 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1597 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1598 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1599 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1601 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1602 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1603 made up of 40 tests).
1605 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1606 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1607 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1609 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1610 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1612 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1613 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1616 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1617 replace our interpreter in production.
1623 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1624 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1626 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1628 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1634 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1636 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1642 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1649 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1650 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1651 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1653 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1656 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1658 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1659 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1660 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1661 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1662 important piece of the puzzle.
1668 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1670 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1673 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1674 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1680 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1681 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1682 the array handling support.
1688 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1691 Some large recent developments:
1693 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1694 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1695 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1697 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1698 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1699 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1701 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1702 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1703 optimize foreach for the array case).
1705 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1706 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1707 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1708 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1709 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1710 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1711 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1712 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1714 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1715 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1721 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1722 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1723 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1725 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1726 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1727 recent C# compiler progress.
1733 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1734 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1740 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1741 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1743 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1744 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1745 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1746 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1748 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1755 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1756 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1758 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1760 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1761 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1768 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1769 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1770 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1771 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1773 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1774 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1775 basically focusing on completeness now.
1782 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1783 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1789 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1790 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1791 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1792 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1793 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1794 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1795 handled correctly (Miguel).
1801 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1802 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1803 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1804 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1805 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1811 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1812 Mono</a> to other architectures.
1818 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1819 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1820 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1821 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1827 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1828 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1829 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1830 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1832 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1838 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1839 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1846 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1847 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1849 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1856 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1857 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1863 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1864 will let you run it.
1866 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
1867 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1869 Good work Mono team!
1875 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1876 are available here: <a
1877 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1883 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1885 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1886 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1892 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1893 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1894 without access to the <a
1895 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>
1901 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1902 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1908 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1909 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1910 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1916 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1917 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1918 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1924 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1925 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1926 get the new class libraries from <a
1927 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1933 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1934 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1935 get the new class libraries from <a
1936 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1942 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1943 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1944 get the new class libraries from <a
1945 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1947 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1949 Got Sean's new Class
1950 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1951 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1957 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1958 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1959 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1966 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1968 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1974 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1975 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1976 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1988 Brian posted a story on <a
1989 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>