- href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
- notes</a> for details.
-
-@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
-
- Brian Lloyd has <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
- the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
- with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
- Brian's site at <a href="
- http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
-
- We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
- libraries and Gtk#) to <a
- href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
- The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
- href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> 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 <a
- href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
- page on the <a
- href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
-
- 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 <a
- href="download.html">download page</a>.
-
-@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 <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
- available <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
-
- 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 <a
- href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
- post</a>
-
-@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
-
- MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
- are now available from our (<a
- href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
- progress on our <a
- href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
- page.</a>
-
- We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
- three distinct flavors:
-
- <ul>
- * 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.
- </ul>
-
- The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
-
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
- of WSDL</a> 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
-
- 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).