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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.
+ 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 (the CLR) and a set of <a
- href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
+ Common Language Infrastructure (also refered as the CLR) and a
+ set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
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+ <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
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+ </tr>
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<b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
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Working:<br>
Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
- In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
+ In progress:<br>
+ StrongARM, SPARC.
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- <b>Mono at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (<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>)</b>
+<h3>Events</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><b><a
+ href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
+ ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
+</ul>
+
+@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
+
+ The <a
+ href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
+ ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
+ will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
+ runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
+ will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
+ the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
+ be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
+ the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
+
+@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
+
+ <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
+ announced an Apache module that hosts
+ Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
+ module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
+ API.
+
+@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
+
+ Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
+ released a fresh version of <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
+
+@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
+
+ Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
+ href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
+
+@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
+
+ Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
+ the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
+ cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
+ merger on our side.
+
+ His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
+ that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
+ circumstances.
+
+@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
+
+ Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
+ on par with the PPC port.
+
+ Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
+ to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
+ code for the remoting infrastructure.
+
+ More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
+ providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
+ their first query.
+
+@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
+
+ Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
+ compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
+ speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
+ 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
+
+ Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
+ corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
+ well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
+ href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
+
+ On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
+ support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
+ for structure marshaling.
+
+ Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
+ is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
+ into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
+ to integrate with Patrik's code.
+
+ Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
+ implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
+ cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
+
+ A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
+ checked into CVS.
+
+@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
+
+ The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
+ to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
+ a successful free software project.
+
+ The first, deserved, entry goes to
+ Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
+ infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
+ himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
+ Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
+
+@item Looking for volunteers
+
+ We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
+ of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
+ contributions to:
+
+ <ul>
+ * More tests to the existing class libraries.
+
+ * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
+ href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
+ all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
+ the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
+ configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
+
+ * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
+ create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
+ library documentation.
+
+ We have some special needs (read them <a
+ href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
+ prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
+ it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
+ it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
+
+ * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
+ to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
+ applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
+ Mono.
+
+ * We need people to help write the documentation: you
+ can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
+ have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
+ </ul>
+
+@item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
+
+ Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
+ MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
+ assignment in the C# language.
+
+@item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
+
+ Gonzalo <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
+ an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
+ working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
+
+ Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
+ structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
+ the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
+
+ Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
+ intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
+ simplify the porting and maintenance process.
+
+@item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
+
+ Zoltan <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
+ the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
+ and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
+
+@item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
+
+ <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
+ your sources for the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
+ <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
+ <p>
+ Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
+ href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
+ packages for Red Hat and they are <a
+ href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
+ And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
+
+@item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
+
+ Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
+ verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
+
+ Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
+ assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
+ Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
+ associated web service tools.
+
+ Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
+
+@item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
+
+ A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
+ href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
+ Also the <a
+ href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
+ has been translated as well.
+
+@item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
+
+ Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
+ now landed on the CVS repository.
+
+ The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
+ (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
+ mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
+ the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
+ universe and back.
+
+ Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
+ compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
@item Jul 17th, 2002
+ The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
+ available online, from young director <a
+ href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
+ Monkey At Work"</a>.
+
A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</b>
+ 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
port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
code is cross platform.
-@item Looking for volunteers
-
- We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
- of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
- contributions to:
-
- <ul>
- * More tests to the existing class libraries.
-
- * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
- href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
- all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
- the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
- configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
-
- * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
- create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
- library documentation.
-
- We have some special needs (read them <a
- href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
- prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
- it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
- it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
-
- * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
- to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
- applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
- Mono.
-
- * We need people to help write the documentation: you
- can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
- have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
- </ul>
-
@item Jul 9th, 2002
Ajay was the first to notice <a
A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
+@item Jun 25, 2002
+
+ I am updating the Mono site from the Unesco offices in
+ Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
+ to promote free software is going very well.
+
+ Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
+
+ Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
+ this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
+
+ On Monday Piers Haken <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
+ the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
+ implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
+
+ Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
+ process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
+ query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
+ environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
+ This means for example that any process can check on the
+ status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
+
+ Of course, those interested
+ in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
+
@item Jun 24, 2002
+
Duncan has written a few sample <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">gtk# demo apps</a>..
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
+ applications</a> (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
+ shot</a>, <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
+
+ Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
+ She also got some <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
+ up now.
+
+@item Jun 22, 2002
+
+ Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linxu for the
+ first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
+
+ Also, we are getting close to
+ self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
+ of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
+
+ Steam is picking up in <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
+ complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
+ now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
+ libraries, which is nice to see.
@item Jun 20, 2002
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