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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
18 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
20 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
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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<br>
70 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
73 Corlib is self hosting.
81 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
93 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
94 ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
97 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
99 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
100 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
101 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
102 are not supported by the .NET framework.
104 Last week we created a new <a
105 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
106 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
108 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
109 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
112 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
114 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
115 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
116 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
117 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
118 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
119 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
120 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
121 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
122 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
123 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
125 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
126 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
127 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
128 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
129 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
130 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
131 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
132 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
135 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
137 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
138 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
139 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
141 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
142 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
143 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
144 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
145 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
146 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
147 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
149 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
150 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
151 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
152 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
153 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
156 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
157 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
158 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
159 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
160 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
161 Documentation Tools</a>.
163 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
165 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
166 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
167 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
168 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
170 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
171 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
172 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
173 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
174 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
175 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
176 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
177 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
178 configuration file `machine.config'.
180 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
182 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
184 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
185 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
186 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
189 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
190 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
191 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
192 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
193 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
195 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
197 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
198 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
200 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
201 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
202 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
203 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
204 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
205 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
208 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
210 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
211 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
212 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
214 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
215 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
216 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
217 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
220 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
222 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
223 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
226 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
228 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
229 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
230 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
233 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
234 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
235 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
236 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
237 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
238 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
241 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
243 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
244 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
245 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
246 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
247 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
248 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
250 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
251 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
252 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
254 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
255 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
256 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
257 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
258 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
259 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
260 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
261 on making a good UI in the future.
263 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
264 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
265 This is the substrate for implementing the
266 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
268 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
269 classes implementation.
271 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
272 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
273 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
274 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
275 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
278 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
281 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
282 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
283 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
284 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
285 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
286 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
287 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
288 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
290 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
293 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
294 announced an Apache module that hosts
295 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
296 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
299 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
301 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
302 released a fresh version of <a
303 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
304 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
306 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
308 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
309 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
310 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
312 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
314 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
315 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
316 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
319 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
320 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
323 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
325 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
326 on par with the PPC port.
328 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
329 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
330 code for the remoting infrastructure.
332 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
333 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
336 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
338 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
339 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
340 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
341 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
343 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
344 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
345 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
346 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
348 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
349 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
350 for structure marshaling.
352 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
353 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
354 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
355 to integrate with Patrik's code.
357 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
358 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
359 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
361 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
364 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
366 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
367 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
368 a successful free software project.
370 The first, deserved, entry goes to
371 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
372 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
373 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
374 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
376 @item Looking for volunteers
378 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
379 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
383 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
385 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
386 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
387 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
388 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
389 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
391 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
392 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
393 library documentation.
395 We have some special needs (read them <a
396 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
397 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
398 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
399 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
401 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
402 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
403 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
406 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
407 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
408 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
411 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
413 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
414 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
415 assignment in the C# language.
417 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
420 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
421 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
422 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
424 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
425 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
426 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
428 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
429 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
430 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
432 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
435 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
436 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
437 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
439 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
441 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
442 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
443 your sources for the <a
444 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
445 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
447 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
448 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
449 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
450 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
451 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
453 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
455 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
456 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
458 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
459 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
460 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
461 associated web service tools.
463 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
465 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
467 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
468 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
470 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
471 has been translated as well.
473 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
475 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
476 now landed on the CVS repository.
478 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
479 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
480 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
481 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
484 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
485 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
486 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
490 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
491 available online, from young director <a
492 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
493 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
496 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
497 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
499 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
500 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
501 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
502 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
504 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
505 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
506 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
510 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
511 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
512 compiler and the Mono runtime.
514 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
515 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
516 from the source code it is compiling.
518 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
519 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
520 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
524 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
525 The resulting image contained errors though.
527 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
528 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
530 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
531 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
532 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
534 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
535 run the compiler on Linux.
537 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
538 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
540 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
541 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
542 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
544 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
545 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
548 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
549 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
550 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
552 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
553 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
554 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
555 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
556 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
557 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
558 code is cross platform.
562 Ajay was the first to notice <a
563 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
564 Mono's first birthday</a>.
566 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
568 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
569 * A complete CLI implementation:
571 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
572 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
574 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
575 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
576 * 92,000 lines of C code.
577 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
578 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
579 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
580 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
581 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
584 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
585 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
586 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
587 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
588 been possible without every contribution.
590 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
591 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
593 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
594 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
595 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
596 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
597 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
598 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
599 to integrate with other object systems.
601 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
602 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
603 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
606 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
607 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
608 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
609 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
614 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
617 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
618 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
619 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
620 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
621 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
622 applications like these in the near future.
624 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
625 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
626 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
627 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
628 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
629 architecture independent layer.
631 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
632 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
633 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
634 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
635 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
636 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
637 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
638 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
639 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
642 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
643 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
648 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
649 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
650 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
652 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
653 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
655 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
656 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
657 applications with it. Details are <a
658 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
660 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
664 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
665 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
666 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
667 being defined at that point to perform compares).
669 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
670 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
671 our resulting corlib.
673 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
675 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
676 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
677 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
678 now a good development tool.
680 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
681 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
682 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
683 bindings, that should simplify application development.
685 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
686 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
690 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
691 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
692 to promote free software is going very well.
694 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
696 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
697 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
699 On Monday Piers Haken <a
700 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
701 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
702 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
704 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
705 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
706 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
707 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
708 This means for example that any process can check on the
709 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
711 Of course, those interested
712 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
717 Duncan has written a few sample <a
718 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
720 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
722 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
724 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
725 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
727 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
732 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
733 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
735 Also, we are getting close to
736 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
737 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
738 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
740 Steam is picking up in <a
741 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
742 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
743 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
744 libraries, which is nice to see.
748 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
749 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
750 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
752 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
753 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
754 match the Microsoft implementation.
758 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
759 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
762 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
763 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
768 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
769 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
773 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
774 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
777 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
778 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
779 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
783 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
787 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
788 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
789 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
790 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
792 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
793 been checked into CVS.
795 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
796 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
798 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
799 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
800 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
804 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
805 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
806 that process this data.
808 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
809 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
813 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
814 System.Data class library.
819 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
820 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
822 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
823 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
824 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
825 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
829 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
830 on the Mono runtime. This <a
831 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
832 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
836 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
837 it is possible to get <a
838 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
839 number</a> information on stack traces.
843 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
844 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
845 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
847 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
848 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
850 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
851 compiling most of our regression test suite.
853 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
854 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
856 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
857 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
859 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
863 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
865 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
870 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
871 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
872 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
874 You can find more information
875 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
877 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
878 and others for these bits.
882 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
883 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
884 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
885 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
886 should make it easier to use and compile.
888 This is another milestone for our <a
889 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
891 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
895 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
896 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
897 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
899 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
900 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
901 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
902 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
903 expose to applications.
906 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
907 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
909 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
914 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
915 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
919 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
920 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
921 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
923 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
928 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
929 fixes and more classes are included.
931 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
932 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
933 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
937 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
938 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
939 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
943 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
945 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
950 Some updates from the hacking lines:
952 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
953 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
954 is part of the ASP.NET support.
956 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
959 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
960 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
961 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
962 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
963 exceptions work). Check <a
964 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
967 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
968 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
970 Early this week Patrik started the string
971 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
972 constructors and deployed the new layout.
974 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
975 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
977 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
978 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
981 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
982 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
983 together are very powerful.
985 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
986 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
992 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
993 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
995 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
996 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1001 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1002 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1004 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1005 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1006 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1010 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1011 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1012 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1013 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1017 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1018 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1019 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1024 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1025 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1026 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1031 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1034 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1035 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1036 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1040 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1041 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1042 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1046 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1047 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1050 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1051 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1052 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1053 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1058 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1059 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1060 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1061 debugging information).
1063 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1064 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1066 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1067 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1068 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1070 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1071 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1074 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1075 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1076 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1078 Remember to post your bug reports.
1080 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1081 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1082 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1083 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1087 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1088 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1089 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1091 A release will follow up shortly.
1095 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1096 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1101 MCS compiles on Linux!
1103 Today Paolo got the <a
1104 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1105 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1106 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1107 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1108 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1109 speed was improved in 400%
1111 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1113 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1114 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1118 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>
1120 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1121 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1122 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1124 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1125 revamped regression test suite.
1127 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1128 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1130 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1131 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>
1135 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1140 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1141 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1142 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1144 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1148 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1149 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1150 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1151 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1153 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1154 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1155 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1159 Paolo posted a list of <a
1160 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1161 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1162 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1167 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1171 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1173 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1177 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1179 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1180 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1181 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1184 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1185 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1186 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1190 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1191 Self hosting is closer every day.
1193 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1197 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1199 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1201 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1202 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1203 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1204 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1206 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1207 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1208 you will get one of the machines.
1212 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1216 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1217 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1218 this with the --share-code command line option.
1220 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1223 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1227 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1229 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1230 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1231 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1232 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1233 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1235 Miguel is off to the <a
1236 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1240 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1242 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1243 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1246 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1247 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1248 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1252 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1253 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1256 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1257 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1260 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1261 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1262 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1263 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1265 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1266 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1267 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1270 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1271 a set of web server classes for <a
1272 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1273 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1276 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1277 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1281 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1282 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1283 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1288 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1289 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1293 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1295 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1296 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1298 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1299 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1300 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1301 set of the Perl regex engine).
1305 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1307 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1309 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1310 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1312 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1313 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1316 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1320 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1321 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1322 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1323 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1327 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1328 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1329 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1331 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1332 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1333 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1337 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1338 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1339 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1341 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1342 non-Windows platforms.
1344 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1345 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1346 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1347 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1352 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1353 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1354 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1355 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1360 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1361 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1362 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1365 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1366 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1371 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1372 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1373 year, new direction</i></a>.
1375 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1376 System.Windows.Forms.
1380 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1381 development of the compiler with itself.
1383 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1384 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1385 on Linux before the end of the month.
1387 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1388 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1389 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1393 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1394 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1395 being fixed quickly.
1397 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1401 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1403 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1405 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1406 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1408 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1409 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1414 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1415 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1417 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1418 implementation is there.
1422 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1423 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1424 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1425 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1426 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1427 reduce spills and reloads.
1429 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1430 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1431 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1432 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1434 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1436 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1437 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1442 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1443 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1444 Climent for helping to set this up.
1448 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1451 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1454 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1458 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1459 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1461 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1462 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1465 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1467 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1472 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1473 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1474 on Gtk# development.
1480 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1481 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1482 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1483 program is executed.
1485 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1486 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1489 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1490 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1491 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1493 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1494 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1495 made up of 40 tests).
1497 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1498 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1499 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1501 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1502 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1504 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1505 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1508 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1509 replace our interpreter in production.
1515 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1516 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1518 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1520 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1526 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1528 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1534 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1541 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1542 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1543 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1545 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1548 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1550 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1551 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1552 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1553 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1554 important piece of the puzzle.
1560 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1562 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1565 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1566 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1572 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1573 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1574 the array handling support.
1580 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1583 Some large recent developments:
1585 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1586 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1587 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1589 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1590 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1591 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1593 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1594 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1595 optimize foreach for the array case).
1597 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1598 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1599 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1600 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1601 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1602 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1603 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1604 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1606 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1607 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1613 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1614 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1615 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1617 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1618 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1619 recent C# compiler progress.
1625 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1626 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1632 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1633 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1635 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1636 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1637 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1638 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1640 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1647 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1648 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1650 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1652 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1653 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1660 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1661 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1662 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1663 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1665 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1666 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1667 basically focusing on completeness now.
1674 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1675 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1681 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1682 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1683 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1684 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1685 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1686 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1687 handled correctly (Miguel).
1693 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1694 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1695 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1696 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1697 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1703 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1704 Mono</a> to other architectures.
1710 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1711 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1712 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1713 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1719 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1720 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1721 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1722 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1724 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1730 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1731 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1738 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1739 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1741 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1748 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1749 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1755 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1756 will let you run it.
1758 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
1759 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1761 Good work Mono team!
1767 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1768 are available here: <a
1769 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1775 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1777 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1778 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1784 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1785 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1786 without access to the <a
1787 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>
1793 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1794 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1800 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1801 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1802 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1808 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1809 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1810 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1816 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1817 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1818 get the new class libraries from <a
1819 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1825 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1826 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1827 get the new class libraries from <a
1828 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1834 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1835 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1836 get the new class libraries from <a
1837 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1839 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1841 Got Sean's new Class
1842 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1843 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1849 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1850 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1851 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1858 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1860 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1866 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1867 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1868 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1880 Brian posted a story on <a
1881 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>