@item Looking for volunteers
We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
contributions to:
* More tests to the existing class libraries.
* Finish existing class libraries, check our class status pages to see
all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
* Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
library documentation.
We have some special needs (read them here). There is a
prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
* Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
Mono.
* We need people to help write the documentation: you
can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
@item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
assignment in the C# language.
@item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
Gonzalo posted
an update on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
simplify the porting and maintenance process.
@item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
Zoltan announced
the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
@item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
Mono 0.13 has been released! (details here). Get
your sources for the runtime and
compiler and class libraries.
Alp made Debian packages and they are here. Cristophe made
packages for Red Hat and they are here.
And Windows packages have been contributed
@item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
associated web service tools.
Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
@item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is here.
Also the FAQ
has been translated as well.
@item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
now landed on the CVS repository.
The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
(also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
universe and back.
Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are here.
@item Jul 17th, 2002
The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
available online, from young director Erik Pukinskis: "Code
Monkey At Work".
A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now online.
More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
(this implements the .aspx compiler).
Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
some screenshots: sample apps and
running with a Russian charset.
@item Jul 16th, 2002
Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
compiler and the Mono runtime.
Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
from the source code it is compiling.
After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
A recapitulation:
* The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
The resulting image contained errors though.
* The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
* The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
* On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
run the compiler on Linux.
* Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
* On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
* Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
architecture specific code generation for trampolines
(delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
code is cross platform.
@item Jul 9th, 2002
Ajay was the first to notice
Mono's first birthday.
In a year, we have achieved plenty:
* 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
* A complete CLI implementation:
- A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
- An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
* A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
* 37,140 file changes in CVS.
* 92,000 lines of C code.
* 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
* A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
* Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
* The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
been possible without every contribution.
It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
`library' to be linked with applications that want to get
scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
to integrate with other object systems.
Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
code generation.
A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
track for so long.
@item Jul 8th, 2002
Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
Linux/PowerPC.
Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of Phonic, a media
player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
applications like these in the near future.
Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
folder and constant propagation are also done at the
architecture independent layer.
Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
Linux.
Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
missing.
@item Jul 3rd, 2002
Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
here
You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
here
Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
applications with it. Details are here
and here
@item Jun 30, 2002
Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
being defined at that point to perform compares).
Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
our resulting corlib.
Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
now a good development tool.
Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
bindings, that should simplify application development.
A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
@item Jun 25, 2002
I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
Uruguay, the South-America trip
to promote free software is going very well.
Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
On Monday Piers Haken contributed
the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
This means for example that any process can check on the
status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
Of course, those interested
in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
@item Jun 24, 2002
Duncan has written a few sample Gtk# demo
applications (screen
shot, another)
Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (screenshot).
She also got some documentation
up now.
@item Jun 22, 2002
Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
Also, we are getting close to
self hosting. Paolo posted a list
of pending issues which are now very small.
Steam is picking up in Gtk# as the bindings become more
complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
libraries, which is nice to see.
@item Jun 20, 2002
Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
match the Microsoft implementation.
@item Jun 19, 2002
You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
compiler daily from Alp Toker's
website.
New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on Richard Torkar's site.
@item Jun 10, 2002
Ajay announced
today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
@item Jun 7, 2002
Mono 0.12 is out! More classes! More working code!
Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes).
@item Jun 3rd, 2002
CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
@item May 31, 2002
Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
.aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
been checked into CVS.
Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
ADO support: Daniel has checked in
a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
started the OleDB using LibGDA.
@item May 27, 2002
An RSS feed is now available for the
Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
that process this data.
Binaries for Windows are
now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
@item May 26, 2002
Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
System.Data class library.
@item May 24, 2002
Ajay has
checked in a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
@item May 22, 2002
MonoLogo runs
on the Mono runtime. This screenshot shows
MonoLogo running Gtk#.
@item May 21, 2002
Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
it is possible to get line
number information on stack traces.
@item May 20, 2002
XSP our ASP.NET .aspx page parser is now
available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
Many updates to the ADO.NET
implementation from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
compiling most of our regression test suite.
Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
@item May 9, 2002
Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
engine. Read about
it
@item May 5, 2002
We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
types are supported right now but more are in the works.
You can find more information
at The Mono ADO-NET Page
Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
and others for these bits.
@item May 4th, 2002
Rodrigo Moya announced new
LibGDA: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
should make it easier to use and compile.
This is another milestone for our ADO.NET implementation plans
We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
@item May 2nd, 2002
Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
Richard Hestilow's MonoLogo compiler are now
on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
expose to applications.
News from the Gtk# front: Menu
support, Mike tells
the story
@item May 1st, 2002
Daily packages for Debian are available
here
@item Apr 26, 2002
Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for Windows
(Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
Linux (thanks
to BaseLabs).
@item Apr 24, 2002
Mono 0.11 is out! Mostly performance improvements, bug
fixes and more classes are included.
A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
included. The Release Notes
are available.
You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes).
@item Apr 23, 2002
SharpDevelop 0.88a is out!
Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
their new release.
@item Apr 20, 2002
Some updates from the hacking lines:
The web: Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
is part of the ASP.NET support.
Docs: John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
hacking on MonoDoc.
ADO.NET: Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
working on the ADO.NET support, and got
the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
exceptions work). Check mono-patches for all the
goodies.
Optimizations: A number of optimizations in the runtime
made the compiler twice as fast this week:
Early this week Patrik started the string
rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
constructors and deployed the new layout.
Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
representation.
At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
together are very powerful.
Bug fixing: And of course everyone has been helping out
with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
Ravi, Sergey)
@item Apr 18, 2002
Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
on CVS as well.
@item Apr 11, 2002
Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been released
Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are available for
people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
@item Apr 6, 2002
Advanced .NET Remoting from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
resource for anyone interested in remoting.
@item Apr 5, 2002
Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
Mono.
@item Mar 28, 2002
Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
the details.
@item Mar 27, 2002
Mono 0.10 is out! The self hosting release of Mono has
been released.
A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
included. The Release Notes
are available.
You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes).
@item Mar 26, 2002
Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
CVS.
Gtk# runs Hello
World. Mike posted some details.
@item Mar 19, 2002
Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
debugging information).
Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
internal calls.
Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
us to run the compiler on Linux.
Remember to post your bug reports.
The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
@item Mar 12, 2002
At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
A release will follow up shortly.
@item Mar 9, 2002
Updated the class status, now
it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
assembly.
@item Mar 7, 2002
MCS compiles on Linux!
Today Paolo got the MCS
compiler compiling itself on Linux
completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
speed was improved in 400%
We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
@item Mar 5, 2002
The CVS repository can be browsed
Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
revamped regression test suite.
Piers has updated our class
status page again, with even more information available.
The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
killed bugs of bugs in the Mono Bug List
@item Mar 1, 2002
RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at mono.baselabs.com
@item Feb 28, 2002
Christophe
has setup his First Steps in Mono web site, which
shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at mono.baselabs.org
@item Feb 27, 2002
New class status engine that
provides detailed information about missing functionality in
our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
@item Feb 26, 2002
Paolo posted a list of ways
you can help if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
his
suggestions.
@item Feb 25, 2002
StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
@item Feb 24, 2002
SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
@item Feb 22, 2002
Mono 0.9 has been released!
A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
been packaged for your download pleasure. The Release Notes
You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes).
@item Feb 21, 2002
Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
Self hosting is closer every day.
Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
@item Feb 20, 2002
Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
is available. We can now easily compile
Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
you will get one of the machines.
@item Feb 19, 2002
Do you want to see what Mono Looks Like?
@item Feb 18, 2002
Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
this with the --share-code command line option.
Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
libraries.
PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
@item Feb 13, 2002
Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
(Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
Miguel is off to the FOSDEM conference in Brussels.
@item Feb 11, 2002
Mono 0.8 has been released!
A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
been packaged for your download pleasure.
You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes)
@item Feb 11, 2002
We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
are rapidly moving.
An explanation of the relationship between GNOME
and Mono.
Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
other systems.
There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
a set of web server classes for enabling
ASP.NET on Mono.
Paolo also
posted a list of pending tasks to enable the compiler to run on Linux
@item Feb 10, 2002
Mike Kestner has posted an Update
on his Gtk# activities.
@item Feb 4, 2002
Adam has done Qt
bindings for .NET. Adam is cool.
@item Jan 29, 2002
Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
Mono:
System.Text.RegularExpressions.
This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
set of the Perl regex engine).
@item Jan 28, 2002
The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
the terms of the
MIT X11 license.
This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
(most notably, the XFree86 project).
The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
Our Press
Release
Press coverage: CNet, Wired,
InfoWorld,
NewsForge.
@item Jan 23, 2002
New mailing list: mono-patches@ximian.com.
This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
@item Jan 21, 2002
Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
screenshot
Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
non-Windows platforms.
C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
has begun.
@item Jan 8, 2002
Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
Linux.
@item Jan 4, 2002
Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are
here
Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
ChangeLog entries.
@item Jan 4, 2002
Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# New
year, new direction.
Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
System.Windows.Forms.
@item Jan 3, 2002
Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
development of the compiler with itself.
Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
on Linux before the end of the month.
Join the fun by downloading either tonight's snapshot or getting your sources from our
Anonymous CVS server.
@item Dec 28, 2001
After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
being fixed quickly.
We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
@item Dec 18, 2001
JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
more programs.
@item Dec 14, 2001
Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
implementation is there.
@item Dec 11, 2001
The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
reduce spills and reloads.
On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
You can get your copy of the latest Mono
More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
`make test' going.
@item Dec 1, 2001
AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
to HispaLinux and Jesus
Climent for helping to set this up.
@item Nov 30, 2001
All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
(Dietmar).
Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
working now (Ravi).
More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
@item Nov 28, 2001
JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
new more tests.
Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
@item Nov 16, 2001
Mike Kestner has posted an update
on Gtk# development.
@item Nov 14, 2001
Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running on
Linux. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
program is executed.
Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
are complete.
To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
* The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
many programs now (our test suite at this point is
made up of 40 tests).
* The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
what Paolo has been working on lately).
The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
.NET runtime (you can get the list by running: monodis --typeref mcs.exe
* The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
replace our interpreter in production.
@item Nov 12, 2001
Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
@item Nov 8, 2001
Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
@item Nov 5, 2001
Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
tests running now.
@item Nov 4, 2001
Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting
update on his work on Gtk#.
Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
compiler.
Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
important piece of the puzzle.
@item Nov 3, 2001
Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
for the JITer.
A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
@item Nov 1, 2001
Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
the array handling support.
@item Oct 27, 2001
Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
morning.
Some large recent developments:
The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
place now and compile and link the decimal code).
Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
engine that we can finally use all over the place.
Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
optimize foreach for the array case).
Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
mutexes, events and a couple of others.
Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
.defs files to quickly wrap the API.
@item Oct 18, 2001
Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
properties. 11
days until Evolution 1.0 ships.
Ximian users around the world rejoice with
recent C# compiler progress.
@item Oct 17, 2001
Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
(definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
@item Oct 15, 2001
JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
classes.
@item Oct 5, 2001
Sergey has released his first version of the ilasm
assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua.
The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
eventually.
@item Oct 4, 2001
Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
basically focusing on completeness now.
@item Sep 28, 2001
Sharp
Develop 0.80 was released today.
@item Sep 26, 2001
More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
(both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
handled correctly (Miguel).
@item Sep 21, 2001
A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
@item Sep 19, 2001
Paolo has written a section on Porting
Mono to other architectures.
@item Sep 18, 2001
Mono 0.7 has been
released (runtime engine, class libraries
and C# compiler). Check the Mono
0.7 announcement for details
@item Sep 17, 2001
Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program here
Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
@item Sep 10, 2001
Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
@item Sep 5, 2001
The MCS compiler can compile the sample Hello World
application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
August 28)
@item Sep 4, 2001
Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
@item Aug 28, 2001
.NET Hello World is working under Mono! The latest snapshots
will let you run it.
Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
Good work Mono team!
@item Aug 23, 2001
Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
are available here: http://csgl.sourceforge.net
@item Aug 22, 2001
New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
released. Check the 0.6 announcement.
@item Aug 20, 2001
A new Compilation
service has been made available by Derek to allow people
without access to the .NET SDK
@item Aug 3, 2001
Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
run every night at 10pm Boston time.
@item Jul 29, 2001
Mono Runtime 0.5 has been released. Check the release notes
@item Jul 25, 2001
The slides for my
presentation at O'Reilly
Open Source Software Convention
@item Jul 22, 2001
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 22-July Release Notes. You can
get the new class libraries from here
@item Jul 19, 2001
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 19-July Release Notes. You can
get the new class libraries from here
@item Jul 17, 2001
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 17-July Release Notes. You can
get the new class libraries from here
Do not forget to check out the updated FAQ.
Got Sean's new Class
Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
we are now keeping better track of contributors.
@item Jul 15, 2001
Another release of Mono is out, check the Mono 0.4 Release Notes. Get it here.
@item Jul 14, 2001
A new
release of the
runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it here
@item Jul 12, 2001
I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
Mono has nothing to do with it. I finally wrote something.
@item Jul 9, 2001
Project launched.
@item O'Reilly
Brian posted a story on O'Reilly Network .NET