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+ <tr>
+ <td>
<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
- launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
- implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
+ launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
+ implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
- Common Language Infrastructure and a set of <a
- href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>
+ Common Language Infrastructure (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
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. Or you can grab a <a
- href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work.
+ 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="resources.html#mailing">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
+ 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>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <table border=1>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
+ Self hosting on .NET.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>JIT</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Linux/x86 working.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>Interpreter</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Working:<br>
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
+ In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Corlib is self hosting.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ RSS feed:
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+ <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>
+
+@item Jul 19th, 2002
+
+ 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
+
+ A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</b>
+
+ More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
+ now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
+ from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
+ (this implements the .aspx compiler).
+
+ Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
+ some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
+ <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
+
+@item Jul 16th, 2002
+
+ Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
+ means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
+ compiler and the Mono runtime.
+
+ Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
+ the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
+ from the source code it is compiling.
+
+ After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
+ the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
+ to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
+
+ A recapitulation:
+ <ul>
+ * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
+ The resulting image contained errors though.
+
+ * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
+ January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
+
+ * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
+ was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
+ This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
+
+ * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
+ run the compiler on Linux.
+
+ * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
+ compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
+
+ * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
+ the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
+ various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
+
+ * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
+ and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
+ </ul>
+
+ In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
+ pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
+ important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
+
+ To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
+ architecture specific code generation for trampolines
+ (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
+ use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
+ Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
+ port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
+ code is cross platform.
+
+@item 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
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
+ Mono's first birthday</a>.
+
+ In a year, we have achieved plenty:
+ <ul>
+ * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
+ * A complete CLI implementation:
+ <ul>
+ <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
+ <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
+ </ul>
+ * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
+ * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
+ * 92,000 lines of C code.
+ * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
+ * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
+ * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
+ System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
+ * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
+ </ul>
+
+ Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
+ feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
+ list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
+ countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
+ been possible without every contribution.
+
+ It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
+ project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
+
+ Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
+ looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
+ Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
+ `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
+ scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
+ GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
+ to integrate with other object systems.
+
+ Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
+ year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
+ all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
+ code generation.
+
+ A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
+ to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
+ regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
+ down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
+ track for so long.
+
+@item Jul 8th, 2002
+
+ Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
+ Linux/PowerPC.
+
+ Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
+ href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
+ player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
+ technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
+ Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
+ applications like these in the near future.
+
+ Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
+ code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
+ means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
+ architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
+ folder and constant propagation are also done at the
+ architecture independent layer.
+
+ Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
+ Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
+ and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
+ appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
+ PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
+ do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
+ most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
+ thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
+ the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
+ Linux.
+
+ Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
+ implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
+ missing.
+
+@item Jul 3rd, 2002
+
+ Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
+ conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
+ <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
+
+ You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
+ <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
+
+ Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
+ conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
+ applications with it. Details are <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
+
+@item Jun 30, 2002
+
+ Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
+ compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
+ MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
+ being defined at that point to perform compares).
+
+ Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
+ remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
+ our resulting corlib.
+
+ Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
+
+ I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
+ interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
+ using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
+ now a good development tool.
+
+ Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
+ there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
+ Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
+ bindings, that should simplify application development.
+
+ A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
+ Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
+
+@item Jun 24, 2002
+
+ Duncan has written a few sample <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">gtk# demo apps</a>..
+
+@item Jun 20, 2002
+
+ Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
+ Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
+ next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
+
+ Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
+ XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
+ match the Microsoft implementation.
+
+@item Jun 19, 2002
+
+ You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
+ compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
+ website</a>.
+
+ New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
+ http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
+
+@item Jun 10, 2002
+
+ Ajay <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
+ today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
+
+@item Jun 7, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
+ Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+@item Jun 3rd, 2002
+
+ CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
+
+@item May 31, 2002
+
+ Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
+ .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
+ It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
+ upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
+
+ Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
+ been checked into CVS.
+
+ Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
+ PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
+
+ <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
+ a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
+ started the OleDB using LibGDA.
+
+@item May 27, 2002
+
+ An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
+ Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
+ that process this data.
+
+ Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
+ now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
+
+@item May 26, 2002
+
+ Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
+ System.Data class library.
+
+@item May 24, 2002
+
+ Ajay <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
+ checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
+
+ Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
+ templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
+ and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
+ ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
+
+@item May 22, 2002
+
+ <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
+ on the Mono runtime. This <a
+ href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
+ MonoLogo running Gtk#.
+
+@item May 21, 2002
+
+ Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
+ it is possible to get <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
+ number</a> information on stack traces.
+
+@item May 20, 2002
+
+ XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
+ available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
+ support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
+
+ Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
+ implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
+
+ Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
+ compiling most of our regression test suite.
+
+ Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
+ polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
+
+ The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
+ VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
+
+ Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
+
+@item May 9, 2002
+
+ Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
+ engine. Read <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
+ it</a>
+
+@item May 5, 2002
+
+ We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
+ using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
+ types are supported right now but more are in the works.
+
+ You can find more information
+ at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
+
+ Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
+ and others for these bits.
+
+@item May 4th, 2002
+
+ Rodrigo Moya announced <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
+ LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
+ This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
+ should make it easier to use and compile.
+
+ This is another milestone for our <a
+ href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
+
+ We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
+
+@item May 2nd, 2002
+
+ Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
+ Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
+ on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
+
+ Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
+ simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
+ we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
+ emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
+ expose to applications.
+
+ News from the <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
+ support</a>, Mike <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
+ the story</a>
+
+@item May 1st, 2002
+
+ Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
+ <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
+
+@item Apr 26, 2002
+
+ Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
+ href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
+ (Thanks to 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 temporarly 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 colib 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 comming 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.
-** Nov 16, 2001
+@item Nov 16, 2001
<blockquote>
Mike Kestner has posted an <a
on Gtk# development.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 14, 2001
+@item Nov 14, 2001
<blockquote>
Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
- href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
+ 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.
replace our interpreter in production.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 12, 2001
+@item Nov 12, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 8, 2001
+@item Nov 8, 2001
<blockquote>
Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 5, 2001
+@item Nov 5, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
tests running now.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 4, 2001
+@item Nov 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
- href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the
important piece of the puzzle.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 3, 2001
+@item Nov 3, 2001
<blockquote>
Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
</blockquote>
-** Nov 1, 2001
+@item Nov 1, 2001
<blockquote>
Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
the array handling support.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 27, 2001
+@item Oct 27, 2001
<blockquote>
Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
.defs files to quickly wrap the API.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 18, 2001
+@item Oct 18, 2001
<blockquote>
Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
recent C# compiler progress.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 17, 2001
+@item Oct 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
(definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 15, 2001
+@item Oct 15, 2001
<blockquote>
JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
classes.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 5, 2001
+@item Oct 5, 2001
<blockquote>
Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
eventually.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 4, 2001
+@item Oct 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
basically focusing on completeness now.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 28, 2001
+@item Sep 28, 2001
<blockquote>
<a
Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 26, 2001
+@item Sep 26, 2001
<blockquote>
More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
handled correctly (Miguel).
</blockquote>
-** Sep 21, 2001
+@item Sep 21, 2001
<blockquote>
A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
</blockquote>
-** Sep 19, 2001
+@item Sep 19, 2001
<blockquote>
Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
Mono</a> to othre architectures.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 18, 2001
+@item Sep 18, 2001
<blockquote>
<A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
0.7 announcement</a> for details
</blockquote>
-** Sep 17, 2001
+@item Sep 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 10, 2001
+@item Sep 10, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
</blockquote>
-** Sep 5, 2001
+@item Sep 5, 2001
<blockquote>
The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
August 28)
</blockquote>
-** Sep 4, 2001
+@item Sep 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
</blockquote>
-** Aug 28, 2001
+@item Aug 28, 2001
<blockquote>
<b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
Good work Mono team!
</blockquote>
-** Aug 23, 2001
+@item Aug 23, 2001
<blockquote>
Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
</blockquote>
-** Aug 22, 2001
+@item Aug 22, 2001
<blockquote>
New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
</blockquote>
-** Aug 20, 2001
+@item Aug 20, 2001
<blockquote>
A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
</blockquote>
-** Aug 3, 2001
+@item Aug 3, 2001
<blockquote>
Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
run every night at 10pm Boston time.
</blockquote>
-** Jul 29, 2001
+@item Jul 29, 2001
<blockquote>
Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 25, 2001
+@item Jul 25, 2001
<blockquote>
The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
Open Source Software Convention</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 22, 2001
+@item Jul 22, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 19, 2001
+@item Jul 19, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 17, 2001
+@item Jul 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
- Got Sean's new <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
- Status</a> web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
+ Got Sean's new Class
+ Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
we are now keeping better track of contributors.
</blockquote>
-** Jul 15, 2001
+@item Jul 15, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
</blockquote>
-** Jul 14, 2001
+@item Jul 14, 2001
<blockquote>
A <a
- href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
+ 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>
-** Jul 12, 2001
+@item Jul 12, 2001
<blockquote>
I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 9, 2001
+@item Jul 9, 2001
<blockquote>
Project launched.
</blockquote>
-** O'Reilly
+@item O'Reilly
<blockquote>
Brian posted a story on <a