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6 <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
7 launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
8 implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
10 Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
11 C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
12 Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
13 set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
14 runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
17 Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
18 and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
20 You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
21 this project. If you have questions about the project, please
22 read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
23 Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
25 You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
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42 <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
47 <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
50 <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
68 Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
75 <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
78 All assemblies compile.
86 <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
94 @item Jan, 19th: Mono Debugger released.
99 After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
100 released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
101 debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
102 unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
103 applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
107 <a href="Screenshot-Debugger-1.png"><img src="images/Screenshot-Debugger-1-thumb.png"></a>
112 Details of the release are available in <a
113 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
118 <a href="Screenshot-Debugger-2.png"><img src="images/Screenshot-Debugger-2-thumb.png"></a>
121 The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
122 The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
123 by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
124 applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
130 @item Jan, 17th: DB2 provider, MacOS X
132 Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
134 MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
135 distribution, and MCS works with it.
137 Zoltan has managed to get <a
138 href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
139 for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
142 @item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
144 Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
145 href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
146 the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
148 @item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
150 A new issue of the <a
151 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
152 Weekly News</a> has been published.
154 Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
155 that Sebastien has put together.
157 @item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
159 Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
160 the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
161 improved this to use implicit names as well.
163 Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
164 debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
165 per-thread basis now.
167 Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
168 Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
169 has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
170 are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
171 mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
173 Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
174 statements on the grammar.
176 Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
177 his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
179 @item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
181 <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
182 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
183 their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
186 <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
187 href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
188 availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
190 Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
191 href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
192 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
193 of their product, also using Mono.
195 @item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
198 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
199 Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
200 bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
201 href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
203 Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
204 and its available from our <a
205 href="download.html">download</a> page.
207 Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
209 @item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
211 Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
212 href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
213 list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
215 Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
216 System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
217 which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
218 href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
219 asp.net has been released as well.
221 This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
223 This release also includes a new exception handling system
224 that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
225 our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
227 @item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
229 Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
230 classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
231 invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
232 compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
235 href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
236 Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
237 href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
239 Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
242 @item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
245 href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
246 Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
247 Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
248 href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
250 <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
251 href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
252 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
253 announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
254 href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
255 server on Unix using Mono.
257 Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
258 tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
259 tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
260 use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
262 Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
263 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
264 on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
265 new test application that people can use to test their
266 controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
267 you can participate in the <a
268 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
271 Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
272 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
274 href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
277 Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
278 continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
280 The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
281 runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
282 compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
283 number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
285 @item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
287 Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
288 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
290 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
291 We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
293 Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
294 can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
295 new technology are <a
296 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
297 It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
299 Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
300 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
301 Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
303 Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
304 href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
307 Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
308 see Windows screenshots for it <a
309 href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
310 href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
312 Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
315 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
316 Mono Keynote presentation</a>
318 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
319 The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
320 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
322 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
324 <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
325 Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
328 A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
330 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
331 in Open Office file format.
333 @item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
335 Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
336 packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
338 Tim Coleman posted an <a
339 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
340 on the improvements in the System.Data
342 The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
343 virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
345 @item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
347 Tim's SqlClient is <a
348 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
349 capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
350 using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
351 running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
353 href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
355 Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
356 supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
357 present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
358 been working on the Security classes.
360 Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
361 Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
362 compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
363 has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
365 Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
366 the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
368 In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
371 Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
372 out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
374 @item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
376 Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
379 The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
380 System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
381 interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
382 ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
383 easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
384 now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
386 We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
387 to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
388 write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
389 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
390 list</a> mailing list.
392 Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
393 servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
394 connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
395 transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
396 data adapter is also coming soon.
398 @item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
400 Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
401 DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
402 still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
403 are not supported by the .NET framework.
405 Last week we created a new <a
406 href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
407 list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
409 Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
410 and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
413 Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
415 href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
416 unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
417 complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
418 representation of the types instead of two (the master types
419 is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
420 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
421 simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
422 configuration to backend keys, following the <a
423 href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
424 Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
426 Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
427 number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
428 major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
429 applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
430 will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
431 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
432 shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
433 users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
436 @item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
438 Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
439 provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
440 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
442 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
443 about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
445 Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
446 cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
447 in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
448 big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
449 classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
450 expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
451 assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
453 Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
454 file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
455 breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
456 routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
457 focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
460 We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
461 module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
462 necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
463 browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
464 be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
465 Documentation Tools</a>.
467 @item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
469 Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
470 been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
471 seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
472 more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
474 Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
475 low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
476 daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
477 regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
478 into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
479 complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
480 able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
481 want. This also includes support for the system-wide
482 configuration file `machine.config'.
484 Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
486 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
488 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
489 Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
490 working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
493 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
494 activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
495 Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
496 Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
497 mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
499 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
501 Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
502 work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
504 Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
505 new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
506 The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
507 more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
508 chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
509 processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
512 @item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
514 Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
515 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
516 href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
518 Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
519 Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
520 breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
521 debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
524 @item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
526 Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
527 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
530 @item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
532 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
533 continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
534 contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
537 This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
538 been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
539 work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
540 origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
541 Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
542 engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
545 @item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
547 Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
548 have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
549 chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
550 inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
551 that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
552 for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
554 Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
555 checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
556 updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
558 Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
559 but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
560 (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
561 your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
562 step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
563 UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
564 code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
565 on making a good UI in the future.
567 Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
568 Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
569 This is the substrate for implementing the
570 System.DirectoryServices assembly.
572 Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
573 classes implementation.
575 After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
576 href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
577 Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
578 going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
579 the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
582 @item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
585 href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
586 ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
587 will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
588 runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
589 will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
590 the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
591 be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
592 the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
594 @item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
597 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
598 announced an Apache module that hosts
599 Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
600 module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
603 @item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
605 Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
606 released a fresh version of <a
607 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
608 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
610 @item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
612 Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
613 href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
614 href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
616 @item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
618 Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
619 the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
620 cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
623 His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
624 that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
627 @item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
629 <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
631 Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
632 on par with the PPC port.
634 Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
635 to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
636 code for the remoting infrastructure.
638 More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
639 providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
642 @item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
644 Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
645 compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
646 speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
647 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
649 Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
650 corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
651 well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
652 href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
654 On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
655 support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
656 for structure marshaling.
658 Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
659 is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
660 into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
661 to integrate with Patrik's code.
663 Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
664 implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
665 cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
667 A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
670 @item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
672 The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
673 to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
674 a successful free software project.
676 The first, deserved, entry goes to
677 Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
678 infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
679 himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
680 Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
682 @item Looking for volunteers
684 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
685 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
689 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
691 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
692 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
693 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
694 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
695 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
697 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
698 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
699 library documentation.
701 We have some special needs (read them <a
702 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
703 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
704 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
705 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
707 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
708 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
709 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
712 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
713 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
714 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
717 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
719 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
720 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
721 assignment in the C# language.
723 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
726 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
727 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
728 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
730 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
731 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
732 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
734 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
735 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
736 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
738 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
741 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
742 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
743 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
745 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
747 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
748 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
749 your sources for the <a
750 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
751 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
753 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
754 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
755 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
756 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
757 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
759 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
761 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
762 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
764 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
765 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
766 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
767 associated web service tools.
769 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
771 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
773 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
774 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
776 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
777 has been translated as well.
779 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
781 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
782 now landed on the CVS repository.
784 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
785 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
786 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
787 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
790 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
791 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
792 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
796 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
797 available online, from young director <a
798 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
799 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
802 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
803 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
805 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
806 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
807 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
808 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
810 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
811 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
812 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
816 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
817 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
818 compiler and the Mono runtime.
820 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
821 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
822 from the source code it is compiling.
824 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
825 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
826 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
830 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
831 The resulting image contained errors though.
833 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
834 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
836 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
837 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
838 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
840 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
841 run the compiler on Linux.
843 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
844 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
846 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
847 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
848 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
850 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
851 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
854 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
855 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
856 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
858 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
859 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
860 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
861 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
862 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
863 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
864 code is cross platform.
868 Ajay was the first to notice <a
869 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
870 Mono's first birthday</a>.
872 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
874 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
875 * A complete CLI implementation:
877 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
878 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
880 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
881 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
882 * 92,000 lines of C code.
883 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
884 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
885 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
886 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
887 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
890 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
891 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
892 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
893 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
894 been possible without every contribution.
896 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
897 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
899 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
900 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
901 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
902 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
903 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
904 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
905 to integrate with other object systems.
907 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
908 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
909 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
912 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
913 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
914 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
915 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
920 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
923 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
924 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
925 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
926 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
927 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
928 applications like these in the near future.
930 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
931 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
932 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
933 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
934 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
935 architecture independent layer.
937 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
938 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
939 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
940 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
941 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
942 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
943 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
944 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
945 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
948 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
949 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
954 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
955 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
956 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
958 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
959 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
961 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
962 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
963 applications with it. Details are <a
964 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
966 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
970 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
971 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
972 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
973 being defined at that point to perform compares).
975 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
976 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
977 our resulting corlib.
979 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
981 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
982 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
983 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
984 now a good development tool.
986 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
987 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
988 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
989 bindings, that should simplify application development.
991 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
992 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
996 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
997 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
998 to promote free software is going very well.
1000 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
1002 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
1003 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
1005 On Monday Piers Haken <a
1006 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
1007 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
1008 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
1010 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
1011 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
1012 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
1013 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
1014 This means for example that any process can check on the
1015 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
1017 Of course, those interested
1018 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
1023 Duncan has written a few sample <a
1024 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
1025 applications</a> (<a
1026 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
1028 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
1030 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
1031 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
1032 She also got some <a
1033 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
1038 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
1039 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
1041 Also, we are getting close to
1042 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
1043 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
1044 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
1046 Steam is picking up in <a
1047 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
1048 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
1049 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
1050 libraries, which is nice to see.
1054 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
1055 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
1056 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
1058 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
1059 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
1060 match the Microsoft implementation.
1064 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
1065 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
1068 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
1069 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
1074 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
1075 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
1079 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
1080 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
1083 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1084 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1085 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1089 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
1093 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
1094 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
1095 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
1096 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
1098 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
1099 been checked into CVS.
1101 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
1102 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
1104 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
1105 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
1106 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
1110 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
1111 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
1112 that process this data.
1114 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
1115 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
1119 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
1120 System.Data class library.
1125 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
1126 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
1128 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
1129 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
1130 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
1131 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
1135 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
1136 on the Mono runtime. This <a
1137 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
1138 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
1142 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
1143 it is possible to get <a
1144 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
1145 number</a> information on stack traces.
1149 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
1150 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
1151 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
1153 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
1154 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
1156 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
1157 compiling most of our regression test suite.
1159 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
1160 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
1162 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
1163 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
1165 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
1169 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
1171 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
1176 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
1177 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
1178 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
1180 You can find more information
1181 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
1183 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
1184 and others for these bits.
1188 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
1189 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
1190 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
1191 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
1192 should make it easier to use and compile.
1194 This is another milestone for our <a
1195 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
1197 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
1201 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
1202 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
1203 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
1205 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
1206 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
1207 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
1208 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
1209 expose to applications.
1212 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
1213 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
1214 support</a>, Mike <a
1215 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
1220 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
1221 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
1225 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
1226 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
1227 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
1229 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
1234 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
1235 fixes and more classes are included.
1237 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1238 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1239 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
1243 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1244 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1245 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1249 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
1251 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
1256 Some updates from the hacking lines:
1258 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
1259 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
1260 is part of the ASP.NET support.
1262 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
1265 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
1266 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
1267 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
1268 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
1269 exceptions work). Check <a
1270 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
1273 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
1274 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
1276 Early this week Patrik started the string
1277 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
1278 constructors and deployed the new layout.
1280 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
1281 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
1283 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
1284 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
1287 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
1288 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
1289 together are very powerful.
1291 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
1292 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
1298 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
1299 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
1301 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
1302 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
1307 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
1308 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
1310 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
1311 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
1312 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
1316 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
1317 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
1318 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
1319 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
1323 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
1324 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
1325 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
1330 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
1331 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
1332 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
1337 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
1340 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1341 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
1342 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
1346 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1347 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1348 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1352 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
1353 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
1356 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
1357 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
1358 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
1359 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
1364 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
1365 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
1366 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
1367 debugging information).
1369 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
1370 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
1372 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
1373 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
1374 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
1376 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
1377 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
1380 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
1381 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
1382 us to run the compiler on Linux.
1384 Remember to post your bug reports.
1386 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
1387 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
1388 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
1389 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
1393 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
1394 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
1395 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
1397 A release will follow up shortly.
1401 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
1402 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
1407 MCS compiles on Linux!
1409 Today Paolo got the <a
1410 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
1411 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
1412 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
1413 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
1414 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
1415 speed was improved in 400%
1417 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
1419 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
1420 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
1424 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>
1426 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
1427 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
1428 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
1430 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
1431 revamped regression test suite.
1433 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
1434 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
1436 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
1437 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>
1441 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
1446 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
1447 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
1448 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
1450 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
1454 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
1455 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
1456 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
1457 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
1459 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
1460 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
1461 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
1465 Paolo posted a list of <a
1466 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
1467 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
1468 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
1473 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
1477 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
1479 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
1483 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
1485 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1486 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
1487 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
1490 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1491 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1492 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
1496 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
1497 Self hosting is closer every day.
1499 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
1503 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
1505 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
1507 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
1508 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
1509 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
1510 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
1512 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
1513 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
1514 you will get one of the machines.
1518 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
1522 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
1523 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
1524 this with the --share-code command line option.
1526 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
1529 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
1533 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
1535 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
1536 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
1537 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
1538 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
1539 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
1541 Miguel is off to the <a
1542 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
1546 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
1548 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
1549 been packaged for your download pleasure.
1552 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
1553 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
1554 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
1558 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
1559 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
1562 An explanation of the relationship between <a
1563 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
1566 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
1567 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
1568 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
1569 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
1571 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
1572 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
1573 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
1576 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
1577 a set of web server classes for <a
1578 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
1579 ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
1582 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
1583 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
1587 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1588 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
1589 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
1594 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
1595 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
1599 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
1601 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
1602 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
1604 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
1605 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
1606 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
1607 set of the Perl regex engine).
1611 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
1613 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
1615 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
1616 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
1618 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
1619 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
1622 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
1626 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
1627 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
1628 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
1629 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
1633 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
1634 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
1635 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
1637 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
1638 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
1639 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
1643 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
1644 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
1645 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
1647 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
1648 non-Windows platforms.
1650 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
1651 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
1652 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
1653 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
1658 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
1659 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
1660 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
1661 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
1666 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
1667 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
1668 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
1671 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
1672 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
1677 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
1678 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
1679 year, new direction</i></a>.
1681 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1682 System.Windows.Forms.
1686 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1687 development of the compiler with itself.
1689 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1690 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1691 on Linux before the end of the month.
1693 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1694 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1695 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1699 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1700 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1701 being fixed quickly.
1703 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1707 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1709 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1711 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1712 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1714 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1715 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1720 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1721 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1723 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1724 implementation is there.
1728 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1729 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1730 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1731 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1732 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1733 reduce spills and reloads.
1735 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1736 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1737 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1738 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1740 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1742 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1743 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1748 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1749 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1750 Climent for helping to set this up.
1754 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1757 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1760 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1764 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1765 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1767 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1768 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1771 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1773 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1778 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1779 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1780 on Gtk# development.
1786 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1787 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1788 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1789 program is executed.
1791 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1792 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1795 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1796 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1797 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1799 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1800 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1801 made up of 40 tests).
1803 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1804 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1805 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1807 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1808 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1810 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1811 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1814 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1815 replace our interpreter in production.
1821 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1822 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1824 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1826 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1832 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1834 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1840 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1847 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1848 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1849 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1851 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1854 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1856 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1857 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1858 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1859 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1860 important piece of the puzzle.
1866 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1868 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1871 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1872 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1878 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1879 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1880 the array handling support.
1886 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1889 Some large recent developments:
1891 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1892 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1893 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1895 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1896 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1897 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1899 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1900 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1901 optimize foreach for the array case).
1903 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1904 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1905 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1906 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1907 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1908 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1909 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1910 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1912 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1913 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1919 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1920 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1921 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1923 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1924 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1925 recent C# compiler progress.
1931 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1932 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1938 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1939 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1941 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1942 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1943 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1944 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1946 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1953 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1954 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1956 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1958 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1959 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1966 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1967 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1968 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1969 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1971 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1972 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1973 basically focusing on completeness now.
1980 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1981 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1987 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1988 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1989 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1990 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1991 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1992 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1993 handled correctly (Miguel).
1999 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
2000 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
2001 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
2002 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
2003 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
2009 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
2010 Mono</a> to other architectures.
2016 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
2017 released (runtime engine, class libraries
2018 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
2019 0.7 announcement</a> for details
2025 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
2026 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
2027 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
2028 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
2030 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
2036 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
2037 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
2044 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
2045 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
2047 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
2054 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
2055 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
2061 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
2062 will let you run it.
2064 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
2065 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
2067 Good work Mono team!
2073 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
2074 are available here: <a
2075 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
2081 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
2083 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
2084 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
2090 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
2091 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
2092 without access to the <a
2093 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>
2099 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
2100 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
2106 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
2107 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
2108 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
2114 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
2115 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
2116 Open Source Software Convention</a>
2122 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2123 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2124 get the new class libraries from <a
2125 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
2131 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2132 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2133 get the new class libraries from <a
2134 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
2140 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
2141 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
2142 get the new class libraries from <a
2143 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
2145 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
2147 Got Sean's new Class
2148 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
2149 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
2155 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
2156 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
2157 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
2164 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
2166 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
2172 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
2173 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
2174 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
2186 Brian posted a story on <a
2187 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>