+<table>
+ <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.
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>
+ 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 bgcolor>
+ <tr>
+ </tr>
+ <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>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+** Apr 26, 2002
+
+ Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
+ href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
+ (Thanks to Guenther Roith) and for
+ <a
+ href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
+ to BaseLabs).
+
+ We have started a little document that aims to be a complete
+ introduction to how to contribute to Mono without having to search
+ a lot through Google, mailing lists or the CVS. It is <a href="mono-contribution-howto">here</a>
+
+** 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>).
+
+** Apr 23, 2002
+
+ SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
+
+ Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
+ their new release.
+
+** Apr 20, 2002
+
+ 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)
+
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** Apr 6, 2002
+
+ <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
+ Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
+ helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
+ resource for anyone interested in remoting.
+
+** Apr 5, 2002
+
+ Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
+ Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
+ This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
+ Mono.
+
+** Mar 28, 2002
+
+ Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
+ to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
+ single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
+ the details.
+
+** Mar 27, 2002
+
+ <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>).
+
+** 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>
+
+
+** 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)
+
+** 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.
+
+** Mar 9, 2002
+
+ Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
+ it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
+ assembly.
+
+** Mar 7, 2002
+
+ 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.
+
+** 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>
+
+** Mar 1, 2002
+
+ RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
+
+** Feb 28, 2002
+
+ <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>
+
+** 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 ;-)
+
+** 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.
+
+** Feb 25, 2002
+
+ StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
+
+** Feb 24, 2002
+
+ SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
+
+ Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
+
+** 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>).
+
+** Feb 21, 2002
+
+ Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
+ Self hosting is closer every day.
+
+ Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
+
+** Feb 20, 2002
+
+ 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.
+
+** Feb 19, 2002
+
+ Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
+
+** 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)
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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>)
+
+** 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
+
+** Feb 10, 2002
+
+ Mike Kestner has posted an <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
+ on his Gtk#</a> activities.
+
+** Feb 4, 2002
+
+ Adam has done <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
+ bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
+
+** Jan 29, 2002
+
+ 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).
+
+** 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>.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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>.
+
+** 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!
+
+** 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.
+
+** Dec 14, 2001
+
+ Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
+ two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
+
+ The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
+ implementation is there.
+
+** Dec 11, 2001
+
+ 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.
+
+** Dec 1, 2001
+
+ AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
+ to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
+ Climent for helping to set this up.
+
+** Nov 30, 2001
+
+ 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).
+
+** 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
+
+<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>
+
+** 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>
+
+** 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>
+
+** 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
+
+<blockquote>
+ Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
+ tests running now.
+</blockquote>
+
+** 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 commited 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>
+
+** Nov 3, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
+
+ Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited 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>
+
+** Nov 1, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
+ variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
+ the array handling support.
+</blockquote>
+
+** Oct 27, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited 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 commited 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>
+
+** 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>
+
+** Oct 17, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
+ (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
+</blockquote>
+
+** 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>
+
+** 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>
+
+** 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>
+
+** Sep 28, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ <a
+ href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
+ Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
+</blockquote>
+
+** 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>
+
+** 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>
+
+** Sep 19, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
+ Mono</a> to othre architectures.
+</blockquote>
+
+** 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>
+
+** 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>
+
+** Sep 10, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
+ importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
+</blockquote>
+
+
+** 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>
+
+** Sep 4, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
+ independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
+</blockquote>
** Aug 28, 2001
+<blockquote>
<b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
will let you run it.
performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
Good work Mono team!
+</blockquote>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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
+<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>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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
Got Sean's new <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
Status</a> web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
we are now keeping better track of contributors.
+</blockquote>
** 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>
** 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
+<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>
** Jul 9, 2001
+<blockquote>
Project launched.
+</blockquote>
** O'Reilly
+<blockquote>
Brian posted a story on <a
href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>
+</blockquote>
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