@item Dec 21st 2003: Mono on PowerPC Progress.
Paolo reports today that the Mono JIT on the PowerPC was able
to successfully run the Mono C# compiler to build its first
programs. This is by no means complete (exception handling is
missing, and Boehm GC seems to fail on MacOS X), this shows
the excellent progress Paolo has been making.
Zoltan has added support for modules to MCS (generation and
consumption).
@item Dec 10th, 2003: Mono Debugger 0.5 released
Martin Baulig has released
a new version of the Mono Debugger.
@item Dec 2nd, 2003: Mono 0.29 has been released
Check out the Release
notes for details on Mono 0.29.
This release includes the PPC JIT engine running `Hello World'
and ASP.NET is considered feature-complete.
@item Nov 25th, 2003: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices
Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from the Gtk# web site.
Sunil has checked in the implementation of
System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap
code into Mono CVS.
@item Nov 14th, 2003: Gtk# 0.13 released.
Mike Kestner has announced
the release of the Gtk#
GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono.
@item Nov 13th, 2003: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET
Sunil Kumar at Novell has announced
the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for
Mono and the .NET Framework.
You can obtain the library from Novell Forge's CSharpLDAP
module.
@item Nov 4th, 2003: Mono Roadmap announced.
The Mono Roadmap and Mono Hackers Roadmap have
been released.
@item Oct 28th, 2003: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
folks.
We will bring Mono t-shirts.
Mike Kestner released Gtk# 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
@item Oct 26th, 2003: Last Minute Mono BOF
The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
to plot the evolution.
@item Oct 25th, 2003: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
Johannes created a Windows
Installer for GTK# 0.11+ and works
with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
@item Oct 21st, 2003: Mono Community at Novell Forge
Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
hosting their projects can now use Novell Forge's which hosts
a Mono
Community.
Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
repository, and using our anonymous CVS
servers
@item Oct 13th, 2003: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
substrate in Mono that uses the International
Components for Unicode library from IBM. This means that
we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
implementation on top of Cairo is used on Unix
systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
maintenance of System.Drawing.
There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
to read the Monologue to keep
an eye on recent developments.
Bernie Solomon just checked
in 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
@item Oct 6th, 2003: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
Linux/s390. You can get them from the download page.
@item Oct 5th, 2003: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
You can now read an aggregated view of the blogs maintained by Mono developers in
Monologue.
Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an RSS feed.
@item Oct 2nd, 2003: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our download page.
A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
is available here
@item Oct 1st, 2003: Mono 0.28 has been released.
Check out the Release
notes for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
@item Sep 30th, 2003: Mono Kick Start book available
The Mono Kick Start book is now available
in English. Originally available only in German.
The book technical review was done by Dietmar Maurer JIT
architect at the Mono team.
@item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
Mike Kestner has released
a new version of Gtk#.
Martin has also
released
his binding to DiaCanvas for C#.
@item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
WineLib: Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
here, here, here and here.
Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
screenshot here (link got broken).
Security: New authenticode support from Sebastien has
been checked into CVS.
Xslt: Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
C-based libxslt that we used before.
Generics: Work continues on generics support, feel free
to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
Wsdl: We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
file from an .asmx file.
AOT: Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
avoid deadlocks.
Dogfooding: We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
Monodoc documentation. The Apache module
version and the XSP
version.
WSE: The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
checked into CVS.
@item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
Ice: Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
implementation of ZeroC's
ICE protocol. It
is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
problems (you can see a list of
differences).
XmlSerializer: Lluis has checked in a new technology
for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
description of instructions for serializing data, these
instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
compiler and improving the performance of it.
Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
serialization process.
MonoDoc: New providers! Thanks to Jon Jagger for providing
us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
in the help system.
Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
the ECMA provider even more.
@item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
Cairo support, Remoting.Corba
support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
Existing features have been improved vastly: better
Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
compliance to the spec and more.
Check out the Release
notes for details.
@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
Brian Lloyd has announced
the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
Brian's site at http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/
We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
libraries and Gtk#) to http://mono.ximian.com:8080.
The site is running the ASP.NET edition of MonoDoc 0.6 on XSP.
@item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
implementation.
The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
source code is available on the WineSamples
page on the Mono Wiki.
A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
you can install the WineLib packages available from our download page.
@item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
now requires an XSP installation to be available.
@item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
Today Novell acquired Ximian. The press release is
available here.
Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
@item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
run Remoting.CORBA:
both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
testing it with other ORBs.
Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
try the new XSLT implementation, see Ben's
post
@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
are now available from our (download page). You can track the
progress on our Wiki
page.
We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
three distinct flavors:
* mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
contain everything necessary to setup a new
installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
* monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
the assemblies built on that day.
* monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
The daily builds are availble here: http://go-mono.com/daily
If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
@item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
generic program. Support for handling images with generics
has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
engine is still incomplete.
On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
Lluis recently posted an update on the state
of WSDL in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
development tool.
Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
@item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
Windows.
This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
various ECMA subsets).
Peter explains the new build system here
Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
NET_1_1 build).
@item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
(which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
- .asmx files.
- Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
- ref and out parameters.
- Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
- Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
For more details, see Lluis post
GUI-wise: Work on Xr to
implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
their web browsers.
Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
`monocov'. Details are here. A fresh Gtk#
version is available now.
Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
@item Jun 26th, 2003: Mono 0.25 has been released.
We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
available here.
Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
available on our download page.
@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
with SourceGear.
Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
added improvements to it).
Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
and bounds.
Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
for ease-of-authoring).
Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
development partnership under which Ximian will provide
custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
mixed-platform development organizations.
Read more...
Some technical details are available here.
@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
OpenLink announced
the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
The patches are available here.
Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the download page.
@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the Eclipse IDE running on top
of Mono+IKVM.
A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found here
@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
generation engine. A list of the new features is available here.
Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
available on our download page.
We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
OpenLink's released
their Virtuoso
3.0 database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
Virtuoso can be downloaded here
and a demo is available here.
OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
an ongoing basis.
Jon Udell wrote a small entry
@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
Atsushi has created a RelaxNG
validating XML reader.
There is activity on the GotMono forums and the Gtk# Wiki
@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
only available in German, you can find it here
We now have a page for the Mono Team
where we include a list of some of the people who have made
Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
to include your information.
@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
details are here
Zoltan has commited his typed
allocation patches to CVS as well.
@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
Gonzalo has checked in his Gtk#-based
NUnit tool. Screenshots are here
and here
Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the details
The SWT port to C# using Gtk is progressing. Screenshots are
here.
@item Mar 28th, 2003: Mono community site.
www.gotmono.com has
openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
@item Mar 25th, 2003: Second Mono Survey
What do you think about Mono?
Is your company involved with the development and
deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
important part of your company's business application
strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
and the use of Linux in business critical
applications?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
would like to talk with you. If interested, please
email us at mbadgett@ximian.com.
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@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
@item Mar 7th, 2003: Mono 0.23
A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
notes are here. This is mostly a
bug fix release. No new features.
@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
Mono 0.22 has been released. See the release notes. This is a bug fix
release.
A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
has been released.
Martin also announced a new
release of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame
continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
contributors that make mono:: a successful free
software project.
Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
point of running the IKVM Java virtual
machine.
@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
A new mailing list for Mono
Development has been created.
@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
The release notes are available.
Windows binary is available here
@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
Packages of Mono for Windows have been released.
Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
handles ASP.NET. The code is available at here
Nick has posted an update on the progress on our regression
tests. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of
the changes. You can get it here.
There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
and performance improvements.
Gtk# 0.8 has been released
Important: The contributed binaries for Windows
binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read this if you installed the binary.
@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
how to complete this process here. Mail the mono-docs-list@ximian.com
for further discussion.
@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
Gnome. A screenshot can be seen here. The bindings are available
on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
straight binding to the C API.
Marco has posted
an update on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
for Mono.
We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
advantage of Unix facilities.
A Mono site in Poland.
Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
If you want to contribute please read this
message
Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
(compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
Mono
Weekly News: Includes a new interview, software
announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
A preliminary
release of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
Release notes
@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
World Expo. A description is here
Open Link has a press
release about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
shipping that uses Mono.
@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of
the changes. You can get it here.
There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
and performance improvements.
We have now a new section with
screenshots of various Mono applications. You can see
there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
progress on the documentation browser.
Gtk# 0.7 has been released
@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
platforms.
Details of the release are available in post.
The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
flag to gcc).
@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
distribution, and MCS works with it.
Zoltan has managed to get IKVM (a Java VM
for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
the Mono runtime.
@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of
the changes. You can get it here.
@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
A new issue of the Mono
Weekly News has been published.
Check out the Crypto status page
that Sebastien has put together.
@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
improved this to use implicit names as well.
Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
per-thread basis now.
Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
statements on the grammar.
Zoltan has posted
his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
Tipic today announced
their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
to run on Mono.
Winfessor also announced the
availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
Also two weeks ago we mentioned OpenLink Software's announcement
of their product, also using Mono.
@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
Mike Kestner announced
Gtk# 0.6. This new release includes many new features and
bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the Mono 0.17 release.
Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
and its available from our download page.
Alp Toker has Debian packages
@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the release notes for a more detailed
list. You can get it here.
Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple test web server to host
asp.net has been released as well.
This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
This release also includes a new exception handling system
that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
Screenshots: in
Windows doing Windows.Forms and in Linux doing VB with Gtk# (courtesy of Alp).
Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
repository as well.
@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
The
Penguin Takes Flight: an article written by Erick
Schonfeld appears on the December issue of Business 2.0 magazine.
OpenLink and Ximian made joint
announcement on the plans of OpenLink to ship their Virtuoso
server on Unix using Mono.
Martin Willemoes's GNOME.NET
tutorial is now available from the main Mono site. This
tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
use Mono to create Mono applications using Gtk#
Dennis Hayes has posted and update
on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
new test application that people can use to test their
controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
you can participate in the mono-winforms
mailing list
Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET data
layer and an application
server for Mono.
Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures working
as well as RSA encryption.
We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
new technology are here.
It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for
Thinking in C#. The book is Mono-friendly.
Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is
here.
Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
see Windows screenshots for it here and here.
Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
are available here
in Open Office file format.
@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
Neale Ferguson has contributed RPM
packages of Mono for the Linux/s390.
Tim Coleman posted an update
on the improvements in the System.Data
The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
Tim's SqlClient is now
capable of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
running with Gtk# on
Windows is shown here
Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
been working on the Security classes.
Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
bindings.
Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
into CVS.
The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
list mailing list.
Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
data adapter is also coming soon.
@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
are not supported by the .NET framework.
Last week we created a new mailing
list to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
binding.
Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
binding is
unique in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
representation of the types instead of two (the master types
is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (shot)
simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
configuration to backend keys, following the GNOME
Human Interface Guidelines.
Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
will do some polishing of the user interface (new
shot) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
time as Mono 0.17.
@item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
provider for Mono. Daniel posted some updates.
Brian posted details
about the ODBC.NET provider.
Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
release of it.
We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
be the foundation for the Mono
Documentation Tools.
@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
want. This also includes support for the system-wide
configuration file `machine.config'.
Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
it looks here
and here.
Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
the screenshot).
Gtk# has seen a lot of
activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
Gtk# is seen here.
Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
performance.
@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are available. The release notes are here.
Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
single-stepping).
@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the First Mono
Survey
@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame
continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
contributors that made mono:: a successful free
software project.
This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
chosen not to document the code
inline). This includes the use of a master reference file
that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
(including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
on making a good UI in the future.
Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
This is the substrate for implementing the
System.DirectoryServices assembly.
Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
classes implementation.
After much public debate, we have chosen a new strategy to implement winforms.
Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
implementation.
@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
The .NET
ONE 2002 conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
will talk about Gtk# and
the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
Sterling
announced an Apache module that hosts
Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
API.
@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
Shortly after Mono 0.15 was
released a fresh version of Gtk# was announced.
@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are available. The release notes are here
@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
merger on our side.
His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
circumstances.
@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
San Francisco: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
on par with the PPC port.
Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
code for the remoting infrastructure.
More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
their first query.
@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of MonoCIL.
On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
for structure marshaling.
Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
to integrate with Patrik's code.
Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
checked into CVS.
@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame has been started
to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made mono::
a successful free software project.
The first, deserved, entry goes to
Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
@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