1 @item Looking for volunteers
3 We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
4 of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
8 * More tests to the existing class libraries.
10 * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
11 href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
12 all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
13 the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
14 configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
16 * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
17 create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
18 library documentation.
20 We have some special needs (read them <a
21 href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
22 prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
23 it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
24 it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
26 * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
27 to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
28 applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
31 * We need people to help write the documentation: you
32 can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
33 have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
36 @item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
38 Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
39 MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
40 assignment in the C# language.
42 @item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
45 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
46 an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
47 working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
49 Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
50 structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
51 the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
53 Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
54 intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
55 simplify the porting and maintenance process.
57 @item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
60 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
61 the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
62 and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
64 @item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
66 <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
67 href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
68 your sources for the <a
69 href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
70 <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
72 Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
73 href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
74 packages for Red Hat and they are <a
75 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
76 And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
78 @item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
80 Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
81 verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
83 Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
84 assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
85 Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
86 associated web service tools.
88 Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
90 @item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
92 A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
93 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
95 href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
96 has been translated as well.
98 @item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
100 Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
101 now landed on the CVS repository.
103 The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
104 (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
105 mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
106 the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
109 Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
110 compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
111 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
115 The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
116 available online, from young director <a
117 href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
118 href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
121 A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
122 href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
124 More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
125 now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
126 from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
127 (this implements the .aspx compiler).
129 Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
130 some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
131 <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
135 Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
136 means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
137 compiler and the Mono runtime.
139 Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
140 the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
141 from the source code it is compiling.
143 After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
144 the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
145 to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
149 * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
150 The resulting image contained errors though.
152 * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
153 January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
155 * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
156 was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
157 This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
159 * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
160 run the compiler on Linux.
162 * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
163 compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
165 * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
166 the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
167 various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
169 * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
170 and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
173 In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
174 pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
175 important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
177 To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
178 architecture specific code generation for trampolines
179 (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
180 use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
181 Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
182 port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
183 code is cross platform.
187 Ajay was the first to notice <a
188 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
189 Mono's first birthday</a>.
191 In a year, we have achieved plenty:
193 * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
194 * A complete CLI implementation:
196 <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
197 <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
199 * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
200 * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
201 * 92,000 lines of C code.
202 * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
203 * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
204 * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
205 System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
206 * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
209 Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
210 feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
211 list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
212 countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
213 been possible without every contribution.
215 It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
216 project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
218 Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
219 looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
220 Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
221 `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
222 scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
223 GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
224 to integrate with other object systems.
226 Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
227 year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
228 all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
231 A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
232 to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
233 regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
234 down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
239 Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
242 Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
243 href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
244 player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
245 technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
246 Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
247 applications like these in the near future.
249 Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
250 code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
251 means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
252 architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
253 folder and constant propagation are also done at the
254 architecture independent layer.
256 Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
257 Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
258 and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
259 appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
260 PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
261 do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
262 most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
263 thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
264 the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
267 Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
268 implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
273 Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
274 conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
275 <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
277 You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
278 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
280 Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
281 conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
282 applications with it. Details are <a
283 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
285 href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
289 Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
290 compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
291 MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
292 being defined at that point to perform compares).
294 Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
295 remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
296 our resulting corlib.
298 Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
300 I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
301 interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
302 using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
303 now a good development tool.
305 Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
306 there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
307 Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
308 bindings, that should simplify application development.
310 A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
311 Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
315 I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
316 Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
317 to promote free software is going very well.
319 Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
321 Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
322 this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
324 On Monday Piers Haken <a
325 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
326 the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
327 implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
329 Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
330 process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
331 query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
332 environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
333 This means for example that any process can check on the
334 status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
336 Of course, those interested
337 in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
342 Duncan has written a few sample <a
343 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
345 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
347 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
349 Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
350 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
352 href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
357 Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
358 first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
360 Also, we are getting close to
361 self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
362 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
363 of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
365 Steam is picking up in <a
366 href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
367 complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
368 now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
369 libraries, which is nice to see.
373 Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
374 Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
375 next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
377 Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
378 XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
379 match the Microsoft implementation.
383 You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
384 compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
387 New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
388 http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
393 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
394 today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
398 <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
399 Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
402 href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
403 href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
404 href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
408 CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
412 Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
413 .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
414 It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
415 upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
417 Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
418 been checked into CVS.
420 Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
421 PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
423 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
424 a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
425 started the OleDB using LibGDA.
429 An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
430 Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
431 that process this data.
433 Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
434 now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
438 Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
439 System.Data class library.
444 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
445 checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
447 Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
448 templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
449 and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
450 ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
454 <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
455 on the Mono runtime. This <a
456 href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
457 MonoLogo running Gtk#.
461 Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
462 it is possible to get <a
463 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
464 number</a> information on stack traces.
468 XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
469 available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
470 support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
472 Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
473 implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
475 Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
476 compiling most of our regression test suite.
478 Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
479 polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
481 The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
482 VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
484 Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
488 Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
490 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
495 We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
496 using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
497 types are supported right now but more are in the works.
499 You can find more information
500 at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
502 Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
503 and others for these bits.
507 Rodrigo Moya announced <a
508 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
509 LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
510 This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
511 should make it easier to use and compile.
513 This is another milestone for our <a
514 href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
516 We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
520 Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
521 Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
522 on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
524 Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
525 simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
526 we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
527 emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
528 expose to applications.
531 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
532 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
534 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
539 Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
540 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
544 Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
545 href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
546 (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
548 href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
553 <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
554 fixes and more classes are included.
556 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
557 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
558 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
562 href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
563 href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
564 href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
568 SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
570 Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
575 Some updates from the hacking lines:
577 <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
578 http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
579 is part of the ASP.NET support.
581 <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
584 <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
585 working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
586 the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
587 rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
588 exceptions work). Check <a
589 href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
592 <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
593 made the compiler twice as fast this week:
595 Early this week Patrik started the string
596 rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
597 constructors and deployed the new layout.
599 Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
600 turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
602 Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
603 with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
606 At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
607 implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
608 together are very powerful.
610 <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
611 with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
617 Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
618 CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
620 Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
621 our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
626 Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
627 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
629 Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
630 href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
631 people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
635 <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
636 Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
637 helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
638 resource for anyone interested in remoting.
642 Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
643 Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
644 This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
649 Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
650 to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
651 single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
656 <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
659 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
660 been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
661 included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
665 href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
666 href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
667 href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
671 Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
672 us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
675 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
676 href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
677 World</a>. Mike posted some <a
678 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
683 Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
684 on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
685 the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
686 debugging information).
688 Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
689 allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
691 The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
692 also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
693 chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
695 Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
696 support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
699 Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
700 environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
701 us to run the compiler on Linux.
703 Remember to post your bug reports.
705 The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
706 endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
707 report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
708 in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
712 At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
713 host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
714 hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
716 A release will follow up shortly.
720 Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
721 it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
726 MCS compiles on Linux!
728 Today Paolo got the <a
729 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
730 compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
731 completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
732 some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
733 and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
734 speed was improved in 400%
736 We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
738 Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
739 we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
743 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>
745 Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
746 classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
747 the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
749 Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
750 revamped regression test suite.
752 Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
753 status</a> page again, with even more information available.
755 The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
756 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>
760 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
765 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
766 has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
767 shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
769 RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
773 New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
774 provides detailed information about missing functionality in
775 our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
776 did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
778 More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
779 enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
780 Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
784 Paolo posted a list of <a
785 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
786 you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
787 <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
792 StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
796 SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
798 Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
802 <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
804 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
805 been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
806 href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
809 href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
810 href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
811 href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
815 Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
816 Self hosting is closer every day.
818 Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
822 Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
824 C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
826 New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
827 is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
828 Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
829 above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
831 There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
832 use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
833 you will get one of the machines.
837 Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
841 Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
842 modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
843 this with the --share-code command line option.
845 Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
848 PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
852 Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
854 AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
855 (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
856 comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
857 regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
858 New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
860 Miguel is off to the <a
861 href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
865 <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
867 A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
868 been packaged for your download pleasure.
871 href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
872 href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
873 href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
877 We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
878 joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
881 An explanation of the relationship between <a
882 href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
885 Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
886 stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
887 for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
888 stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
890 We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
891 non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
892 for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
895 There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
896 a set of web server classes for <a
897 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
901 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
902 posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
906 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
907 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
908 on his Gtk#</a> activities.
913 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
914 bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
918 Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
920 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
921 System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
923 This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
924 fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
925 was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
926 set of the Perl regex engine).
930 The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
932 <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
934 This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
935 (most notably, the XFree86 project).
937 The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
938 the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
941 href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
945 href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
946 href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
947 <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
948 <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
952 New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
953 This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
954 to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
956 This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
957 code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
958 expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
962 Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
963 Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
964 <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
966 Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
967 non-Windows platforms.
969 C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
970 the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
971 tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
972 reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
977 Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
978 the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
979 Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
980 the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
985 Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
986 runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
987 "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
990 Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
991 compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
996 Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
997 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
998 year, new direction</i></a>.
1000 Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
1001 System.Windows.Forms.
1005 Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
1006 development of the compiler with itself.
1008 Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
1009 self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
1010 on Linux before the end of the month.
1012 Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
1013 href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
1014 <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
1018 After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
1019 There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
1020 being fixed quickly.
1022 We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
1026 JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
1028 JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
1030 System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
1031 PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
1033 C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
1034 the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
1039 Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
1040 two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
1042 The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
1043 implementation is there.
1047 The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
1048 well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
1049 recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
1050 allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
1051 and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
1052 reduce spills and reloads.
1054 On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
1055 much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
1056 visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
1057 analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
1059 You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
1061 More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
1062 libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
1067 AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
1068 to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
1069 Climent for helping to set this up.
1073 All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
1076 Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
1079 More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
1083 JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
1084 Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
1086 The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
1087 switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
1090 Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
1092 Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
1097 Mike Kestner has posted an <a
1098 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
1099 on Gtk# development.
1105 Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
1106 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
1107 Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
1108 program is executed.
1110 Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
1111 functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
1114 To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
1115 uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
1116 on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
1118 * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
1119 many programs now (our test suite at this point is
1120 made up of 40 tests).
1122 * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
1123 the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
1124 what Paolo has been working on lately).
1126 The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
1127 .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
1129 * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
1130 compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
1133 At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
1134 replace our interpreter in production.
1140 Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
1141 got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
1143 More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
1145 Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
1151 Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
1153 Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
1159 Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
1166 Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
1167 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
1168 update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
1170 Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
1173 Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
1175 Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
1176 System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
1177 steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
1178 foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
1179 important piece of the puzzle.
1185 Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
1187 Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
1190 A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
1191 new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
1197 Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
1198 variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
1199 the array handling support.
1205 Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
1208 Some large recent developments:
1210 The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
1211 partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
1212 place now and compile and link the decimal code).
1214 Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
1215 the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
1216 engine that we can finally use all over the place.
1218 Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
1219 Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
1220 optimize foreach for the array case).
1222 Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
1223 previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
1224 has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
1225 support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
1226 week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
1227 WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
1228 steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
1229 mutexes, events and a couple of others.
1231 Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
1232 .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
1238 Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
1239 properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
1240 days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
1242 Ximian users around the world <!--a
1243 href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
1244 recent C# compiler progress.
1250 Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
1251 (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
1257 JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
1258 creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
1260 The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
1261 missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
1262 delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
1263 try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
1265 System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
1272 Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
1273 assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
1275 href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
1277 The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
1278 component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
1285 Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
1286 executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
1287 that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
1288 while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
1290 The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
1291 the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
1292 basically focusing on completeness now.
1299 href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
1300 Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
1306 More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
1307 runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
1308 (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
1309 type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
1310 Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
1311 internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
1312 handled correctly (Miguel).
1318 A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
1319 support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
1320 got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
1321 the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
1322 got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
1328 Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
1329 Mono</a> to other architectures.
1335 <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
1336 released (runtime engine, class libraries
1337 and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
1338 0.7 announcement</a> for details
1344 Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
1345 repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
1346 The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
1347 C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
1349 Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
1355 Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
1356 importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
1363 The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
1364 application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
1366 This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
1373 Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
1374 independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
1380 <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
1381 will let you run it.
1383 Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
1384 performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
1386 Good work Mono team!
1392 Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
1393 are available here: <a
1394 href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
1400 New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
1402 href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
1403 href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
1409 A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
1410 service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
1411 without access to the <a
1412 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>
1418 Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
1419 run every night at 10pm Boston time.
1425 Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
1426 href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
1427 href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
1433 The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
1434 presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
1435 Open Source Software Convention</a>
1441 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1442 href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1443 get the new class libraries from <a
1444 href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
1450 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1451 href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1452 get the new class libraries from <a
1453 href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
1459 Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
1460 href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
1461 get the new class libraries from <a
1462 href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
1464 Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
1466 Got Sean's new Class
1467 Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
1468 we are now keeping better track of contributors.
1474 Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
1475 href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
1476 href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
1483 href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
1485 runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
1491 I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
1492 Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
1493 href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
1505 Brian posted a story on <a
1506 href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>