Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
- application.
-
- Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
- and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
+ application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
+ and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
- Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
+ Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact
+ us.</a> The project <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>.
You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
You might want to <a
href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
- and mono-announce-list
+ and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a
+ href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
+ href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
- You can contact the team at: <a
- href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
+ Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
+ Wiki</a>
- In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
- about the team members we have created the <a
- href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
- Which archives can be found <a
- href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
</td>
<td>
<table border=1>
</td>
<td>
Working:<br>
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
- In progress:<br>
- StrongARM, SPARC.
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br>
</td>
</tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
+ <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
+ </tr>
<tr>
<td>
<b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
+
+ <table border=1>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan="3">
+ <b><center>In the news</center></b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/netmagazine.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/infoworld.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/infoworld.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/b2.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
+@item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
+
+ The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a
+ href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> have
+ been released.
+
+@item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
+
+ We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
+ 28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
+ notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
+ folks.
+
+ We will bring Mono t-shirts.
+
+ Mike Kestner released <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
+ and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
+
+@item Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF
+
+ The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
+ place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
+ to plot the evolution.
+
+
+@item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
+
+ Johannes created a <a href="http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/gtk-sharp/gtk-sharp-0.11-cvs.exe">Windows Installer for GTK# 0.11+</a> and works
+ with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
+
+@item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
+
+ Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
+ hosting their projects can now use <a
+ href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts
+ a <a
+ href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono
+ Community</a>.
+
+ Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
+ tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
+ you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
+ repository, and using our <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS
+ servers</a>
+
+@item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
+
+ Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
+ substrate in Mono that uses the <a
+ href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International
+ Components for Unicode</a> library from IBM. This means that
+ we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
+
+ Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
+ System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
+ with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
+ implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
+ implementation on top of <a
+ href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> is used on Unix
+ systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
+ maintenance of System.Drawing.
+
+ There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
+ to read the <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep
+ an eye on recent developments.
+
+ Bernie Solomon just <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked
+ in</a> 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
+ runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
+
+@item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
+
+ Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
+ Linux/s390. You can get them from the <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+@item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
+
+ You can now read an aggregated view of the <a
+ href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in
+ <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>.
+ Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a
+ href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>.
+
+@item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
+
+ Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+ A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
+ is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>
+
+@item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
+
+ Check out the <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release
+ notes</a> for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
+ completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
+ functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
+
+@item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
+
+ The Mono Kick Start book is now <a
+ href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325799/qid=1064937318/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9624440-8714218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">available</a>
+ in English. Originally available only in <a
+ href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>.
+ The book technical review was done by <a
+ href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT
+ architect at the Mono team.
+
+@item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
+
+ Mike Kestner has <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a>
+ a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>.
+
+ Martin has also
+ <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a>
+ his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#.
+
+@item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
+
+ <b>WineLib:</b> Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
+ process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
+ various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
+ <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a
+ href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a
+ href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a
+ href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>.
+
+ Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
+ screenshot <a href="http://www.sport-huettn.de/jroith/swfsample.png">here</a>
+
+ <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has
+ been checked into CVS.
+
+ <b>Xslt:</b> Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
+ implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
+ barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
+ C-based libxslt that we used before.
+
+ <b>Generics:</b> Work continues on generics support, feel free
+ to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
+ directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
+ the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
+ out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
+
+ <b>Wsdl:</b> We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
+ command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
+ file from an .asmx file.
+
+ <b>AOT:</b> Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
+ compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
+ having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
+ fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
+ avoid deadlocks.
+
+ <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
+ go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
+ Monodoc documentation. The <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module
+ version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP
+ version</a>.
+
+ <b>WSE:</b> The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
+ The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
+ checked into CVS.
+
+@item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
+
+ <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
+ implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
+ <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
+ is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
+ efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
+
+ ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
+ who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
+ problems (you can see a <a
+ href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
+ differences</a>).
+
+ <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
+ for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
+ generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
+ description of instructions for serializing data, these
+ instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
+ is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
+ step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
+ compiler and improving the performance of it.
+
+ Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
+ serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
+ serialization process.
+
+ <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
+ href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
+ us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
+ have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
+ the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
+ in the help system.
+
+ Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
+ updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
+ matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
+ the ECMA provider even more.
+
+@item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
+
+ A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
+ <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
+ href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
+ support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
+
+ Existing features have been improved vastly: better
+ Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
+ compliance to the spec and more.
+
+ Check out the <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
+ notes</a> for details.
+
+@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
+
+ Brian Lloyd has <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
+ the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
+ with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
+ Brian's site at <a href="
+ http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
+
+ We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
+ libraries and Gtk#) to <a
+ href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
+ The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
+ href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
+
+@item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
+
+ Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
+ programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
+ are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
+ implementation.
+
+ The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
+ source code is available on the <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
+ page on the <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
+
+ A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
+ contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
+ you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
+ href="download.html">download page</a>.
+
+@item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
+
+ Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
+ ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
+ each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
+ The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
+ requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
+ added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
+ support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
+
+ The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
+ now requires an XSP installation to be available.
+
+@item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
+
+ Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
+ available <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
+
+ Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
+
+@item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
+
+ Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
+ run <a
+ href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
+ both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
+ testing it with other ORBs.
+
+ Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
+ we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
+ on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
+ Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
+ implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
+ libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
+ try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
+ post</a>
+
+@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
+
+ MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
+ are now available from our (<a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
+ progress on our <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
+ page.</a>
+
+ We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
+ three distinct flavors:
+
+ <ul>
+ * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
+ contain everything necessary to setup a new
+ installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
+ runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
+
+ * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
+ the assemblies built on that day.
+
+ * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
+ 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
+ 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
+ re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
+ </ul>
+
+ The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
+
+ If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
+
+@item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
+
+ Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
+ to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
+ is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
+ work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
+
+ Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
+ well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
+ generic program. Support for handling images with generics
+ has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
+ engine is still incomplete.
+
+ On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
+ improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
+ implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
+ currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
+ namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
+ will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
+
+ Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
+ of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
+ ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
+ development tool.
+
+ Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
+ System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
+
+@item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
+
+ Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
+ addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
+ system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
+ helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
+ historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
+ Windows.
+
+ This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
+ libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
+ various ECMA subsets).
+
+ Peter explains the new build system <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
+
+ Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
+ build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
+ NET_1_1 build).
+
+@item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
+
+ Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
+ authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
+ (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
+ runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
+ new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
+ <ul>
+ <li> .asmx files.
+ <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
+ <li> ref and out parameters.
+ <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
+ <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
+ </ul>
+
+ For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
+
+ GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
+ implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
+ GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
+ Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
+
+ MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
+ coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
+ extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
+ their web browsers.
+
+ Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
+ With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
+ code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
+ `monocov'. Details are <a
+ href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
+ version is available now.
+
+ Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
+
+@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
+
+ We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
+ available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
+
+ Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+ available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
+
+ Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
+ services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
+ web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
+ compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
+ compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
+ experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
+
+ As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
+ increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
+ specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
+ arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
+ with SourceGear.
+
+ Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
+ runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
+ coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
+ added improvements to it).
+
+ Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
+ migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
+ advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
+
+ Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
+ regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
+ the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
+
+ On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
+ checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
+ and bounds.
+
+ Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
+ of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
+ for ease-of-authoring).
+
+ Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
+ for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
+
+@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
+
+ Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
+ solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
+ that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
+ technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
+ products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
+ development partnership under which Ximian will provide
+ custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
+ products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
+ both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
+ code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
+ mixed-platform development organizations.
+
+ <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
+
+ Some technical details are available <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
+
+@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
+
+ OpenLink <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a>
+ the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library
+ that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies
+ the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary
+ have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program.
+ The patches are available <a
+ href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>.
+
+ Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a
+ href="download.html">download page</a>.
+
+@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono
+
+ Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a
+ href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top
+ of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>.
+
+ A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a
+ href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a>
+
+@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships
+
+ We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code
+ generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>.
+
+ Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+ available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+ We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time.
+
+@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships.
+
+ <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released
+ their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso
+ 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux.
+ On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and
+ ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release.
+
+ Virtuoso can be downloaded <a
+ href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a>
+ and a demo is available <a
+ href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>.
+
+ OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on
+ an ongoing basis.
+
+ Jon Udell wrote a small <a
+ href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a>
+
+@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities.
+
+ Atsushi has created a <a
+ href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a>
+ validating XML reader.
+
+ There is activity on the <a
+ href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a>
+
+@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages.
+
+ The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently
+ only available in German, you can find it <a
+ href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a>
+
+ We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a>
+ where we include a list of some of the people who have made
+ Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page
+ to include your information.
+
+@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine.
+
+ The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the
+ details are <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a>
+
+ Zoltan has commited his <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed
+ allocation</a> patches to CVS as well.
+
+@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT#
+
+ Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based
+ <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a>
+
+ Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS,
+ module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a>
+
+ The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are
+ <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>.
+
+@item Mar 28th: Mono community site.
+
+ <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has
+ openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site.
+
+@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey
+
+ <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue">
+ <tr>
+ <td valign="top">
+ <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;">
+ What do you think about Mono?
+
+ Is your company involved with the development and
+ deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an
+ important part of your company's business application
+ strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next
+ project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono
+ and the use of Linux in business critical
+ applications?
+
+ If you answered yes to any of these questions, we
+ would like to talk with you. If interested, please
+ email us at <a
+ href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>.
+ </div>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine.
+
+ Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system
+ that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It
+ is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of
+ Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux.
+
+@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23
+
+ A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release
+ notes are <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. This is mostly a
+ bug fix release. No new features.
+
@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama.
Mono 0.22 has been released. See the <a
Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
+ Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a>
+
@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released.
Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a
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 committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
- structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
- the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
-
- Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
- intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
- simplify the porting and maintenance process.
-
-@item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
-
- Zoltan <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
- the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
- and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
-
-@item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
-
- <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
- href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
- your sources for the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
- <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
- <p>
- Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
- href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
- packages for Red Hat and they are <a
- href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
- And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
-
-@item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
-
- Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
- verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
-
- Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
- assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
- Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
- associated web service tools.
-
- Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
-
-@item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
-
- A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
- href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
- Also the <a
- href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
- has been translated as well.
-
-@item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
-
- Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
- now landed on the CVS repository.
-
- The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
- (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
- mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
- the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
- universe and back.
-
- Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
- compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
-
-@item Jul 17th, 2002
-
- The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
- available online, from young director <a
- href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
- Monkey At Work"</a>.
-
- A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
-
- More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
- now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
- from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
- (this implements the .aspx compiler).
-
- Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
- some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
- <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
-
-@item Jul 16th, 2002
-
- Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
- means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
- compiler and the Mono runtime.
-
- Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
- the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
- from the source code it is compiling.
-
- After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
- the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
- to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
-
- A recapitulation:
- <ul>
- * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
- The resulting image contained errors though.
-
- * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
- January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
-
- * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
- was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
- This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
-
- * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
- run the compiler on Linux.
-
- * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
- compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
-
- * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
- the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
- various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
-
- * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
- and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
- </ul>
-
- In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
- pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
- important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
-
- To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
- architecture specific code generation for trampolines
- (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
- use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
- Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
- port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
- code is cross platform.
-
-@item Jul 9th, 2002
-
- Ajay was the first to notice <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
- Mono's first birthday</a>.
-
- In a year, we have achieved plenty:
- <ul>
- * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
- * A complete CLI implementation:
- <ul>
- <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
- <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
- </ul>
- * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
- * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
- * 92,000 lines of C code.
- * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
- * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
- * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
- System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
- * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
- </ul>
-
- Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
- feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
- list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
- countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
- been possible without every contribution.
-
- It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
- project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
-
- Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
- looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
- Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
- `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
- scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
- GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
- to integrate with other object systems.
-
- Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
- year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
- all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
- code generation.
-
- A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
- to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
- regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
- down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
- track for so long.
-
-@item Jul 8th, 2002
-
- Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
- Linux/PowerPC.
-
- Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
- href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
- player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
- technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
- Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
- applications like these in the near future.
-
- Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
- code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
- means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
- architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
- folder and constant propagation are also done at the
- architecture independent layer.
-
- Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
- Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
- and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
- appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
- PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
- do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
- most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
- thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
- the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
- Linux.
-
- Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
- implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
- missing.
-
-@item Jul 3rd, 2002
-
- Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
- conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
- <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
-
- You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
- <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
-
- Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
- conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
- applications with it. Details are <a
- href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
- and <a
- href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
-
-@item Jun 30, 2002
-
- Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
- compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
- MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
- being defined at that point to perform compares).
-
- Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
- remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
- our resulting corlib.
-
- Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
-
- I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
- interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
- using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
- now a good development tool.
-
- Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
- there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
- Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
- bindings, that should simplify application development.
-
- A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
- Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
-
-@item Jun 25, 2002
-
- I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
- Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
- to promote free software is going very well.
-
- Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
-
- Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
- this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
-
- On Monday Piers Haken <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
- the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
- implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
-
- Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
- process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
- query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
- environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
- This means for example that any process can check on the
- status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
-
- Of course, those interested
- in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
-
-@item Jun 24, 2002
-
-
- Duncan has written a few sample <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
- applications</a> (<a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
- shot</a>, <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
-
- Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
- She also got some <a
- href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
- up now.
-
-@item Jun 22, 2002
-
- Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
- first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
-
- Also, we are getting close to
- self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
- of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
-
- Steam is picking up in <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
- complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
- now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
- libraries, which is nice to see.
-
-@item Jun 20, 2002
-
- Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
- Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
- next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
-
- Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
- XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
- match the Microsoft implementation.
-
-@item Jun 19, 2002
-
- You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
- compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
- website</a>.
-
- New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
- http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
-
-@item Jun 10, 2002
-
- Ajay <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
- today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
-
-@item Jun 7, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
- Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Jun 3rd, 2002
-
- CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
-
-@item May 31, 2002
-
- Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
- .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
- It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
- upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
-
- Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
- been checked into CVS.
-
- Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
- PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
-
- <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
- a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
- started the OleDB using LibGDA.
-
-@item May 27, 2002
-
- An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
- Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
- that process this data.
-
- Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
- now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
-
-@item May 26, 2002
-
- Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
- System.Data class library.
-
-@item May 24, 2002
-
- Ajay <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
- checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
-
- Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
- templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
- and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
- ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
-
-@item May 22, 2002
-
- <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
- on the Mono runtime. This <a
- href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
- MonoLogo running Gtk#.
-
-@item May 21, 2002
-
- Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
- it is possible to get <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
- number</a> information on stack traces.
-
-@item May 20, 2002
-
- XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
- available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
- support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
-
- Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
- implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
-
- Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
- compiling most of our regression test suite.
-
- Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
- polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
-
- The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
- VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
-
- Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
-
-@item May 9, 2002
-
- Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
- engine. Read <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
- it</a>
-
-@item May 5, 2002
-
- We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
- using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
- types are supported right now but more are in the works.
-
- You can find more information
- at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
-
- Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
- and others for these bits.
-
-@item May 4th, 2002
-
- Rodrigo Moya announced <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
- LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
- This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
- should make it easier to use and compile.
-
- This is another milestone for our <a
- href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
-
- We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
-
-@item May 2nd, 2002
-
- Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
- Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
- on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
-
- Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
- simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
- we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
- emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
- expose to applications.
-
- News from the <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
- support</a>, Mike <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
- the story</a>
-
-@item May 1st, 2002
-
- Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
- <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
-
-@item Apr 26, 2002
-
- Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
- href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
- (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
- <a
- href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
- to BaseLabs).
-
-@item Apr 24, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
- fixes and more classes are included.
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
- included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
- are available.
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Apr 23, 2002
-
- SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
-
- Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
- their new release.
-
-@item Apr 20, 2002
-
- Some updates from the hacking lines:
-
- <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
- http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
- is part of the ASP.NET support.
-
- <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
- hacking on MonoDoc.
-
- <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
- working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
- the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
- rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
- exceptions work). Check <a
- href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
- goodies.
-
- <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
- made the compiler twice as fast this week:
-
- Early this week Patrik started the string
- rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
- constructors and deployed the new layout.
-
- Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
- turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
-
- Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
- with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
- representation.
-
- At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
- implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
- together are very powerful.
-
- <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
- with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
- Ravi, Sergey)
-
-
-@item Apr 18, 2002
-
- Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
- CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
-
- Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
- our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
- on CVS as well.
-
-@item Apr 11, 2002
-
- Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
-
- Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
- href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
- people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
-
-@item Apr 6, 2002
-
- <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
- Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
- helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
- resource for anyone interested in remoting.
-
-@item Apr 5, 2002
-
- Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
- Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
- This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
- Mono.
-
-@item Mar 28, 2002
-
- Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
- to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
- single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
- the details.
-
-@item Mar 27, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
- been released.
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
- included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
- are available.
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Mar 26, 2002
-
- Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
- us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
- CVS.
-
- <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
- World</a>. Mike posted some <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
-
-
-@item Mar 19, 2002
-
- Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
- on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
- the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
- debugging information).
-
- Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
- allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
-
- The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
- also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
- chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
-
- Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
- support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
- internal calls.
-
- Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
- environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
- us to run the compiler on Linux.
-
- Remember to post your bug reports.
-
- The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
- endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
- report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
- in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
-
-@item Mar 12, 2002
-
- At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
- host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
- hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
-
- A release will follow up shortly.
-
-@item Mar 9, 2002
-
- Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
- it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
- assembly.
-
-@item Mar 7, 2002
-
- MCS compiles on Linux!
-
- Today Paolo got the <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
- compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
- completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
- some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
- and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
- speed was improved in 400%
-
- We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
-
- Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
- we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
-
-@item Mar 5, 2002
-
- The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
-
- Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
- classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
- the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
-
- Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
- revamped regression test suite.
-
- Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
- status</a> page again, with even more information available.
-
- The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
- killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
-
-@item Mar 1, 2002
-
- RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
-
-@item Feb 28, 2002
-
- <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
- has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
- shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
-
- RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
-
-@item Feb 27, 2002
-
- New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
- provides detailed information about missing functionality in
- our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
- did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
-
- More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
- enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
- Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
-
-@item Feb 26, 2002
-
- Paolo posted a list of <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
- you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
- <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
- suggestions.
-
-@item Feb 25, 2002
-
- StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
-
-@item Feb 24, 2002
-
- SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
-
- Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
-
-@item Feb 22, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
- href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Feb 21, 2002
-
- Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
- Self hosting is closer every day.
-
- Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
-
-@item Feb 20, 2002
-
- Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
-
- C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
-
- New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
- is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
- Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
- above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
-
- There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
- use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
- you will get one of the machines.
-
-@item Feb 19, 2002
-
- Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
-
-@item Feb 18, 2002
-
- Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
- modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
- this with the --share-code command line option.
-
- Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
- libraries.
-
- PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
-
-@item Feb 13, 2002
-
- Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
-
- AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
- (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
- comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
- regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
- New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
-
- Miguel is off to the <a
- href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
-
-@item Feb 11, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure.
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
-
-@item Feb 11, 2002
-
- We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
- joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
- are rapidly moving.
-
- An explanation of the relationship between <a
- href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
- and Mono</a>.
-
- Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
- stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
- for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
- stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
-
- We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
- non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
- for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
- other systems.
-
- There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
- a set of web server classes for <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
- ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
-
- Paolo also <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
- posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
-
-@item Feb 10, 2002
-
- Mike Kestner has posted an <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
- on his Gtk#</a> activities.
-
-@item Feb 4, 2002
-
- Adam has done <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
- bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
-
-@item Jan 29, 2002
-
- Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
- Mono: <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
- System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
-
- This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
- fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
- was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
- set of the Perl regex engine).
-
-@item Jan 28, 2002
-
- The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
- the terms of the
- <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
-
- This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
- (most notably, the XFree86 project).
-
- The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
- the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
-
- Our <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
- Release</a>
-
- Press coverage: <a
- href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
- href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
- <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
- <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
-
-@item Jan 23, 2002
-
- New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
- This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
- to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
-
- This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
- code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
- expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
-
-@item Jan 21, 2002
-
- Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
- Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
- <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
-
- Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
- non-Windows platforms.
-
- C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
- the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
- tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
- reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
- has begun.
-
-@item Jan 8, 2002
-
- Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
- the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
- Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
- the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
- Linux.
-
-@item Jan 4, 2002
-
- Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
- runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
- "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
- here</a>
-
- Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
- compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
- ChangeLog entries.
-
-@item Jan 4, 2002
-
- Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
- year, new direction</i></a>.
-
- Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
- System.Windows.Forms.
-
-@item Jan 3, 2002
-
- Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
- development of the compiler with itself.
-
- Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
- self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
- on Linux before the end of the month.
-
- Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
- href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
- <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
-
-@item Dec 28, 2001
-
- After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
- There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
- being fixed quickly.
-
- We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
-
-@item Dec 18, 2001
-
- JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
-
- JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
-
- System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
- PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
-
- C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
- the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
- more programs.
-
-@item Dec 14, 2001
-
- Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
- two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
-
- The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
- implementation is there.
-
-@item Dec 11, 2001
-
- The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
- well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
- recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
- allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
- and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
- reduce spills and reloads.
-
- On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
- much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
- visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
- analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
-
- You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
-
- More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
- libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
- `make test' going.
-
-@item Dec 1, 2001
-
- AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
- to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
- Climent for helping to set this up.
-
-@item Nov 30, 2001
-
- All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
- (Dietmar).
-
- Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
- working now (Ravi).
-
- More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
-
-@item Nov 28, 2001
-
- JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
- Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
-
- The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
- switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
- new more tests.
-
- Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
-
- Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
-
-@item Nov 16, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Mike Kestner has posted an <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
- on Gtk# development.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 14, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
- Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
- program is executed.
-
- Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
- functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
- are complete.
-
- To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
- uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
- on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
-<ul>
- * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
- many programs now (our test suite at this point is
- made up of 40 tests).
-
- * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
- the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
- what Paolo has been working on lately).
-
- The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
- .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
-
- * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
- compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
-</ul>
-
- At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
- replace our interpreter in production.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 12, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
- got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
-
- More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
-
- Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 8, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
-
- Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 5, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
- tests running now.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 4, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
- update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
-
- Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
- compiler.
-
- Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
-
- Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
- System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
- steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
- foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
- important piece of the puzzle.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 3, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
-
- Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
- for the JITer.
-
- A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
- new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Nov 1, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
- variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
- the array handling support.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 27, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
- morning.
-
- Some large recent developments:
-
- The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
- partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
- place now and compile and link the decimal code).
-
- Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
- the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
- engine that we can finally use all over the place.
-
- Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
- Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
- optimize foreach for the array case).
-
- Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
- previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
- has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
- support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
- week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
- WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
- steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
- mutexes, events and a couple of others.
-
- Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
- .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 18, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
- properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
- days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
-
- Ximian users around the world <!--a
- href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
- recent C# compiler progress.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 17, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
- (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 15, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
- creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
-
- The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
- missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
- delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
- try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
-
- System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
- classes.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 5, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
- assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
- <a
- href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
-
- The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
- component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
- eventually.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Oct 4, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
- executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
- that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
- while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
-
- The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
- the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
- basically focusing on completeness now.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 28, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- <a
- href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
- Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 26, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
- runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
- (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
- type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
- Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
- internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
- handled correctly (Miguel).
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 21, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
- support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
- got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
- the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
- got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 19, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
- Mono</a> to other architectures.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 18, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
- released (runtime engine, class libraries
- and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
- 0.7 announcement</a> for details
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 17, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
- repository. Gtk# can run a simple hello world application.
- The binding is nice, as it maps Gtk+ signals to delegates in
- C#. You can see the Gtk# Hello World program <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a>
-
- Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 10, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
- importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
-</blockquote>
-
-
-@item Sep 5, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
- application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs!
-
- This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see
- August 28)
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Sep 4, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
- independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 28, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
- will let you run it.
-
- Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
- performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
-
- Good work Mono team!
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 23, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
- are available here: <a
- href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 22, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
- <a
- href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 20, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
- service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people
- without access to the <a
- href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Aug 3, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
- run every night at 10pm Boston time.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 29, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
- href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 25, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
- presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
- Open Source Software Convention</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 22, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
- href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
- get the new class libraries from <a
- href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 19, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
- href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can
- get the new class libraries from <a
- href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 17, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
- href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can
- get the new class libraries from <a
- href="download.html#july-17">here</a>
-
- Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
-
- Got Sean's new Class
- Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
- we are now keeping better track of contributors.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 15, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
- href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 14, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- A <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
- release</a> of the
- runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 12, 2001
-
-<blockquote>
- I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
- Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a
- href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-@item Jul 9, 2001
+<h2>Older News</h2>
-<blockquote>
- Project launched.
-</blockquote>
+ Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news.
-@item 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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