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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.
-
- 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 (also referred as the CLR) and a
- set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
- runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
- application.
-
- Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
- and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
-
- You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
- this project. If you have questions about the project, please
- read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
- Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
-
- You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
- source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
- href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
- href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
- the sources</a>
- You might want to <a
- href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
- and mono-announce-list
-
- You can contact the team at: <a
- href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
-
- In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
- about the team members we have created the <a
- href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
- Which archives can be found <a
- href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
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- <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
+ <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b>
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- <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
- Self hosting on .NET.
+ Self hosting on Linux and .NET
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+ <b>JIT:</b>
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- Linux/x86 working.
+ Works for Linux/x86
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- Working:<br>
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
- In progress:<br>
- SPARC.
+ Works for
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
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+ <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
+ <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
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- <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
+ <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award.
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-@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
-
- <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
- openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
-
-@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
-
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- <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
- 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 <a
- href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
- </div>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </table>
-
-@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: Mono 0.23
-
- A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
- notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. 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 <a
- href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
- release.
-
- A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
- has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
-
- Martin also announced a <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
- release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
-
-@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
-
- The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
- continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
- contributors that make <b>mono::</b> 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 <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
- machine.
-
-@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
-
- A new mailing list for <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
- Development</a> 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 <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
-
-@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
-
- Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
- href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
- 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 <a
- href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
-
- Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
- tests</a>. 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 <a
- href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
- the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
- There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
- and performance improvements.
-
- Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
-
- <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
- binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
- href="virus.html">this</a> 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 <a
- href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
- href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
- 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 <a
- href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
- on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
- straight binding to the C API.
-
- Marco has <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
- an update</a> 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 <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
-
- Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
- If you want to contribute please read <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
- message</a>
-
- 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.
-
- <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
- Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
- announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
-
-@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
-
- A <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
- release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
- Release <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
-
-@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 <a
- href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
-
- Open Link has a <a
- href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
- release</a> 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 <a
- href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
- the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
- There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
- and performance improvements.
-
- We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
- screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
- there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
- progress on the documentation browser.
-
- <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
-
-@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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
-
- 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 <a
- href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (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 <a
- href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
- the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
-
-@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
-
- A new issue of the <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
- Weekly News</a> has been published.
-
- Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> 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 <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
- his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
-
-@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
-
- <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
- their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
- to run on Mono.
-
- <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
- href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
- availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
-
- Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
- href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
- of their product, also using Mono.
-
-@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
-
- Mike Kestner <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
- Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
- bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
-
- Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
- and its available from our <a
- href="download.html">download</a> page.
-
- Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
-
-@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
-
- Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
- list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
-
- 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 <a
- href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> 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: <a
- href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
- Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
- href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (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.
-
- <a
- href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
- Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
- Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
- href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
-
- <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
- announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
- href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
- server on Unix using Mono.
-
- Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
- tutorial</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
-
- Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
- mailing list</a>
-
- Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
- href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
- layer</a> and an <a
- href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
- server</a> 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
- as well as RSA <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
- It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
-
- Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
- Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
-
- Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
- href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
- here</a>.
-
- Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
- see Windows screenshots for it <a
- href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
- href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
-
- Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
- <ul>
- <li><a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
- Mono Keynote presentation</a>
-
- <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
- The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
-
- <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
-
- <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
- Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
- </ul>
-
- A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
- are available <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
- in Open Office file format.
-
-@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
-
- Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
- packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
-
- Tim Coleman posted an <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
- capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
- using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
- running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
- Windows is shown <a
- href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
-
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
- list</a> 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
- list</a> 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 <a
- href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
- unique</a> 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 (<a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
- simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
- configuration to backend keys, following the <a
- href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
- Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
-
- 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 (<a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
- shot</a>) 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
- Brian posted <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
- about the ODBC.NET</a> 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 <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
- Documentation Tools</a>.
-
-@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 <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
- and <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
- Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
- working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
- the screenshot).
-
- <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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 <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
-
- 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 <a
- href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
- href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
-
- 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 <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 implementation.
-
- 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
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+
+ <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/infoworld.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/infoworld.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/b2.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
- <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
- Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
- on par with the PPC port.
+<p>
+ The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by <a
+ href="http://novell.com">Novell</a> to create a free
+ implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
+</p>
- 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.
+<p>
+ Mono includes <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
+ C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">Common Language
+ Runtime</a> (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a
+ set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
+ runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
+ application. It implements both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
+ and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
+</p>
+<p>
+ If you have questions about the project, read <a
+ href="rationale.html">the project launch statement</a>
+ or visit our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
+ Questions</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ For details on the project's future direction, read the
+ <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>, and <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> the latest software version.
+ You can also get a <a href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our
+ current work, or <a
+ href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
+ the source tree.</a>
+</p>
+<p>
+ To participate in discussion and development, <a
+ href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe to our mailing lists</a>.
+ You can also visit the <a
+ href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
+ href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a> or the <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk#</a> and
+ <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
+ </a> Wikis.
+</p>
+<br>
+<br>
- More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
- providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
- their first query.
+@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released
-@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
+ We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release
+ notes are available <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.30.1.html">here</a> and you can download
+ it from our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
- 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.
+@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization
- 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>.
+ We have a new document that describes some <a
+ href="performance.html">common tricks to improve the
+ performance</a> of your Mono or .NET application. These are a
+ summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C#
+ compiler.
- On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
- support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
- for structure marshaling.
+@item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released
- 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.
+ Check out the <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release
+ notes</a> for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> section
- 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.
+@item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial.
- A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
- checked into CVS.
+ Sunil Kumar has written an <a
+ href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/cooldev/features/a_net_cplus_ldap_library_cdev.html">introduction
+ to Novell.LDAP</a> class libraries, which are part of Mono.
-@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
+@item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released.
- 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.
+ A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from:
+ <a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a>
- 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 Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories
-@item Looking for volunteers
+ If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono
+ components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail
+ your details to miguel@ximian.com
- We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
- of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
- contributions to:
+@item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29
- <ul>
- * More tests to the existing class libraries.
+ There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows
+ Installer for Mono 0.29</a> available now.
- * 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 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 <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 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.
- </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 committing 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 Linux 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 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 <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 Johannes Roith) and for
- <a
- href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
- to BaseLabs).
-
-@item Apr 24, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> 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 <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
- are available.
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@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.
-
-@item Apr 20, 2002
-
- Some updates from the hacking lines:
-
- <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
- http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
- is part of the ASP.NET support.
-
- <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
- hacking on MonoDoc.
-
- <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
- working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> 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 <a
- href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
- goodies.
-
- <b>Optimizations:</b> 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.
-
- <b>Bug fixing:</b> 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
-
- Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
- href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
- people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
-
-@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.
-
-@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
-
- <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> 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 <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
- are available.
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@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.
-
- <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
- World</a>. Mike posted some <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
-
-
-@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 <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
- compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
- 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 <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>
-
- 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 <a href="class-status.html">class
- status</a> page again, with even more information available.
-
- 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>
-
-@item Mar 1, 2002
-
- RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
-
-@item Feb 28, 2002
-
- <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
- has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> 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 <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
-
-@item Feb 27, 2002
-
- New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
- you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
- <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
- 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
-
- <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
- href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@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 <a href="download.html">available</a>. 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 <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
-
-@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 <a
- href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
-
-@item Feb 11, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure.
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
-
-@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 <a
- href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
- and Mono</a>.
-
- 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 <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
- ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
-
- Paolo also <a
- 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
-
-@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.
-
-@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.
-
-@item Jan 29, 2002
-
- Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
- Mono: <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
- System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
-
- 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
- <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> 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 <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
- Release</a>
-
- Press coverage: <a
- href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
- href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
- <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>.
-
-@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
- 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
- <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
-
- 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 <a href=
- "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
- here</a>
-
- 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# <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
- year, new direction</i></a>.
-
- 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 <a
- href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
- <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
-
-@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 <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
-
- 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 <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> 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
-
-<blockquote>
- Mike Kestner has posted an <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
- on Gtk# development.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 14, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
- Linux</a>. 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:
-<ul>
- * 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: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
-
- * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
- compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
-</ul>
-
- At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
- replace our interpreter in production.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 12, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- 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.
-</blockquote>
-
-@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>
-
-@item Nov 5, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
- tests running now.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 4, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
- update</a> 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.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 3, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- 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).
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 1, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
- variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
- the array handling support.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 27, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- 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.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 18, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
- properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
- days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
-
- Ximian users around the world <!--a
- href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
- recent C# compiler progress.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 17, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
- (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 15, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- 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.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 5, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
- assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
- <a
- href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
-
- The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
- component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
- eventually.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 4, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- 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.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 28, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- <a
- href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
- Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 26, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- 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).
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 21, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- 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
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 19, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
- Mono</a> to other architectures.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 18, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
- released (runtime engine, class libraries
- and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
- 0.7 announcement</a> for details
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 17, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- 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 <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
-
- Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 10, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
- importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
-</blockquote>
-
-
-@item Sep 5, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
- application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
-
- This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
- August 28)
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 4, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
- independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 28, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> 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!
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 23, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
- are available here: <a
- href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 22, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
- <a
- href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 20, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
- service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
- without access to the <a
- 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>
-
-@item Aug 3, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
- run every night at 10pm Boston time.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 29, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
- href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 25, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
- presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
- Open Source Software Convention</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 22, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
- href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
- get the new class libraries from <a
- href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 19, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
- href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
- get the new class libraries from <a
- href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 17, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
- href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
- get the new class libraries from <a
- href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
-
- Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
-
- 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>
-
-@item Jul 15, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
- href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 14, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- A <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
- release</a> of the
- runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 12, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
- Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
- href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 9, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Project launched.
-</blockquote>
+<h2>Older News</h2>
-@item O'Reilly
+ Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see older news.
-<blockquote>
- Brian posted a story on <a
- href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>
-</blockquote>
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