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<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
- launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
- implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
+ launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
+ implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
- Common Language Infrastructure and a set of <a
- href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
+ Common Language Infrastructure (also refered as the CLR) and a
+ set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
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+ <td colspan="3">
+ <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
+ </td>
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<b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
Self hosting on .NET.
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+ </td>
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Working:<br>
Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
- In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
+ In progress:<br>
+ StrongARM, SPARC.
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Corlib is self hosting.
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+ <td>
+ RSS feed:
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-** Apr 26, 2002
+<h3>Events</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><b><a
+ href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
+ ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
+</ul>
+
+@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released
+
+ Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
+ href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
+
+@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
+
+ Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
+ Survey</a>
+
+@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
+
+ The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+ continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+ contributors that made <b>mono::</b> 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 <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
+ inline</a>). 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 implemetation.
+
+ After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
+ href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
+ ONE 2002</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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
+
+ <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
+ 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 <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
+ released a fresh version of <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
+
+@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
+
+ Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
+ href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
+
+@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
+
+ 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 <a
+ href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
+
+ 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 <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
+ to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
+ 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:
+
+ <ul>
+ * More tests to the existing class libraries.
+
+ * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
+ href="class-status.html">class status</a> 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 <a
+ href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). 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.
+ </ul>
+
+@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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
+ an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
+ working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
+
+ Rachel quietly commited 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
+ 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.
+
+ <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
+ your sources for the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
+ <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
+ <p>
+ Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
+ href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
+ packages for Red Hat and they are <a
+ href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
+ And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
+
+@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 <a
+ href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
+ Also the <a
+ href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
+
+@item Jul 17th, 2002
+
+ The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
+ available online, from young director <a
+ href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
+ Monkey At Work"</a>.
+
+ A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
+
+ 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: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
+ <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
+
+@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:
+ <ul>
+ * 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 resuling 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.
+ </ul>
+
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
+ Mono's first birthday</a>.
+
+ In a year, we have achieved plenty:
+ <ul>
+ * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
+ * A complete CLI implementation:
+ <ul>
+ <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
+ <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
+ </ul>
+ * 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.
+ </ul>
+
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, 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
+ <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
+
+ You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
+ <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
+
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
+
+@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 commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
+
+@item Jun 25, 2002
+
+ I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
+ Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
+ 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 <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
+ applications</a> (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
+ shot</a>, <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
+
+ Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
+ She also got some <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
+ up now.
+
+@item Jun 22, 2002
+
+ Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
+ first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
+
+ Also, we are getting close to
+ self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
+ of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
+
+ Steam is picking up in <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
+ website</a>.
+
+ New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
+ http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
+
+@item Jun 10, 2002
+
+ Ajay <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
+ today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
+
+@item Jun 7, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
+ Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+@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).
+
+ <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: 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 <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
+ Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
+ that process this data.
+
+ Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
+ checked in</a> 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
+
+ <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
+ on the Mono runtime. This <a
+ href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
+ MonoLogo running Gtk#.
+
+@item May 21, 2002
+
+ Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
+ it is possible to get <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
+ number</a> information on stack traces.
+
+@item May 20, 2002
+
+ XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .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 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
+ implementation</a> 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 commited 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 <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
+ it</a>
+
+@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 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
+
+ Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
+ and others for these bits.
+
+@item May 4th, 2002
+
+ Rodrigo Moya announced <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
+ LibGDA</a>: 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 <a
+ href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
+
+ 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 <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> 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 <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
+ support</a>, Mike <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
+ the story</a>
+
+@item May 1st, 2002
+
+ Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
+ <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
+
+@item Apr 26, 2002
Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
- (Thanks to Guenther Roith) and for
+ (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
<a
href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
to BaseLabs).
-** Apr 24, 2002
+@item Apr 24, 2002
<b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
fixes and more classes are included.
href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-** Apr 23, 2002
+@item Apr 23, 2002
SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
their new release.
-** Apr 20, 2002
+@item Apr 20, 2002
Some updates from the hacking lines:
Ravi, Sergey)
-** Apr 18, 2002
+@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.
our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
on CVS as well.
-** Apr 11, 2002
+@item Apr 11, 2002
Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
-** Apr 6, 2002
+@item Apr 6, 2002
<a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
Advanced .NET Remoting</a> 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.
-** Apr 5, 2002
+@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.
-** Mar 28, 2002
+@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.
-** Mar 27, 2002
+@item Mar 27, 2002
<b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
been released.
href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-** Mar 26, 2002
+@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
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
-** Mar 19, 2002
+@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
report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
-** Mar 12, 2002
+@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
A release will follow up shortly.
-** Mar 9, 2002
+@item Mar 9, 2002
Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
assembly.
-** Mar 7, 2002
+@item Mar 7, 2002
MCS compiles on Linux!
Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
-** Mar 5, 2002
+@item Mar 5, 2002
The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
-** Mar 1, 2002
+@item Mar 1, 2002
RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
-** Feb 28, 2002
+@item Feb 28, 2002
<a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
-** Feb 27, 2002
+@item Feb 27, 2002
New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
provides detailed information about missing functionality in
enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
-** Feb 26, 2002
+@item Feb 26, 2002
Paolo posted a list of <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
<a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
suggestions.
-** Feb 25, 2002
+@item Feb 25, 2002
StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
-** Feb 24, 2002
+@item Feb 24, 2002
SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
-** Feb 22, 2002
+@item Feb 22, 2002
<b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-** Feb 21, 2002
+@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.
-** Feb 20, 2002
+@item Feb 20, 2002
Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
you will get one of the machines.
-** Feb 19, 2002
+@item Feb 19, 2002
Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
-** Feb 18, 2002
+@item Feb 18, 2002
Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
-** Feb 13, 2002
+@item Feb 13, 2002
Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
Miguel is off to the <a
href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
-** Feb 11, 2002
+@item Feb 11, 2002
<b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
-** Feb 11, 2002
+@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
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
-** Feb 10, 2002
+@item Feb 10, 2002
Mike Kestner has posted an <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
on his Gtk#</a> activities.
-** Feb 4, 2002
+@item Feb 4, 2002
Adam has done <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
-** Jan 29, 2002
+@item Jan 29, 2002
Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
Mono: <a
was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
set of the Perl regex engine).
-** Jan 28, 2002
+@item Jan 28, 2002
The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
the terms of the
<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
-** Jan 23, 2002
+@item Jan 23, 2002
New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
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.
-** Jan 21, 2002
+@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
reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
has begun.
-** Jan 8, 2002
+@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
the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
Linux.
-** Jan 4, 2002
+@item Jan 4, 2002
Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
ChangeLog entries.
-** Jan 4, 2002
+@item Jan 4, 2002
Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
System.Windows.Forms.
-** Jan 3, 2002
+@item Jan 3, 2002
Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
development of the compiler with itself.
href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
<a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
-** Dec 28, 2001
+@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
We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
-** Dec 18, 2001
+@item Dec 18, 2001
JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
more programs.
-** Dec 14, 2001
+@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.
-** Dec 11, 2001
+@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
libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
`make test' going.
-** Dec 1, 2001
+@item Dec 1, 2001
AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
Climent for helping to set this up.
-** Nov 30, 2001
+@item Nov 30, 2001
All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
(Dietmar).
More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
-** Nov 28, 2001
+@item Nov 28, 2001
JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
-** Nov 16, 2001
+@item Nov 16, 2001
<blockquote>
Mike Kestner has posted an <a
on Gtk# development.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 14, 2001
+@item Nov 14, 2001
<blockquote>
Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
replace our interpreter in production.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 12, 2001
+@item Nov 12, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 8, 2001
+@item Nov 8, 2001
<blockquote>
Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 5, 2001
+@item Nov 5, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
tests running now.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 4, 2001
+@item Nov 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
important piece of the puzzle.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 3, 2001
+@item Nov 3, 2001
<blockquote>
Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
</blockquote>
-** Nov 1, 2001
+@item Nov 1, 2001
<blockquote>
Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
the array handling support.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 27, 2001
+@item Oct 27, 2001
<blockquote>
Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
.defs files to quickly wrap the API.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 18, 2001
+@item Oct 18, 2001
<blockquote>
Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
recent C# compiler progress.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 17, 2001
+@item Oct 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
(definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 15, 2001
+@item Oct 15, 2001
<blockquote>
JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
classes.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 5, 2001
+@item Oct 5, 2001
<blockquote>
Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
eventually.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 4, 2001
+@item Oct 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
basically focusing on completeness now.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 28, 2001
+@item Sep 28, 2001
<blockquote>
<a
Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 26, 2001
+@item Sep 26, 2001
<blockquote>
More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
handled correctly (Miguel).
</blockquote>
-** Sep 21, 2001
+@item Sep 21, 2001
<blockquote>
A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
</blockquote>
-** Sep 19, 2001
+@item Sep 19, 2001
<blockquote>
Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
Mono</a> to othre architectures.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 18, 2001
+@item Sep 18, 2001
<blockquote>
<A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
0.7 announcement</a> for details
</blockquote>
-** Sep 17, 2001
+@item Sep 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 10, 2001
+@item Sep 10, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
</blockquote>
-** Sep 5, 2001
+@item Sep 5, 2001
<blockquote>
The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
August 28)
</blockquote>
-** Sep 4, 2001
+@item Sep 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
</blockquote>
-** Aug 28, 2001
+@item Aug 28, 2001
<blockquote>
<b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
Good work Mono team!
</blockquote>
-** Aug 23, 2001
+@item Aug 23, 2001
<blockquote>
Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
</blockquote>
-** Aug 22, 2001
+@item Aug 22, 2001
<blockquote>
New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
</blockquote>
-** Aug 20, 2001
+@item Aug 20, 2001
<blockquote>
A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
</blockquote>
-** Aug 3, 2001
+@item Aug 3, 2001
<blockquote>
Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
run every night at 10pm Boston time.
</blockquote>
-** Jul 29, 2001
+@item Jul 29, 2001
<blockquote>
Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 25, 2001
+@item Jul 25, 2001
<blockquote>
The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
Open Source Software Convention</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 22, 2001
+@item Jul 22, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 19, 2001
+@item Jul 19, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 17, 2001
+@item Jul 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
- Got Sean's new <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
- Status</a> web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
+ 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.
</blockquote>
-** Jul 15, 2001
+@item Jul 15, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
</blockquote>
-** Jul 14, 2001
+@item Jul 14, 2001
<blockquote>
A <a
runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 12, 2001
+@item Jul 12, 2001
<blockquote>
I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 9, 2001
+@item Jul 9, 2001
<blockquote>
Project launched.
</blockquote>
-** O'Reilly
+@item O'Reilly
<blockquote>
Brian posted a story on <a
projects / mono.git / blobdiff