Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
- Common Language Infrastructure (also refered as the CLR) and a
- set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
+ Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
+ set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
+ runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
+ application.
+
+ Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
+ and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
- href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
+ href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse
the sources</a>
You might want to <a
href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
- and mono-announce-list
+ 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>
+
+ 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>.
+ We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
+ and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
+
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Working:<br>
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM<br>
In progress:<br>
- StrongARM, SPARC.
+ SPARC.
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</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>
<td>
- Corlib is self hosting.
+ All assemblies compile.
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<a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
</td>
</tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
+ </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>
-<h3>Events</h3>
+@item Jul 27th, 2003: Daily Snapshots
-<ul>
- <li><b><a
- href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
- ONE 2002:</a></b> Come see Paolo, Mike and Miguel from the Mono team at the .NET ONE conference in Frankfurt.</ul>
-</ul>
+ 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' and 'System.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 me.
+@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
+ href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix
+ release.
+
+ A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser
+ has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>.
+
+ Martin also announced a <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new
+ release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line).
+
+@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga
+
+ The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+ continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+ contributors that make <b>mono::</b> a successful free
+ software project.
+
+ Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug
+ fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in
+ and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage
+ and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the
+ point of running the <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual
+ machine.
+
+@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list.
+
+ A new mailing list for <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono
+ Development</a> has been created.
+
+@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released
+
+ Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release.
+ The <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available.
+
+ 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
+ href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>.
+ Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up.
+
+ Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that
+ handles ASP.NET. The code is available at <a
+ href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a>
+
+ Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression
+ tests</a>. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them.
+
+ Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort,
+ momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details.
+
+@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released.
+
+ Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of
+ the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+ There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+ and performance improvements.
+
+ Gtk# 0.8 has been <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a>
+
+ <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows
+ binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a
+ href="virus.html">this</a> if you installed the binary.
+
+@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk#
+
+ With the availability of a documentation browser, we are
+ looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation
+ of the Gtk# binding for Mono.
+
+ Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have
+ checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to
+ how to complete this process <a
+ href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a
+ href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a>
+ for further discussion.
+
+@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates.
+
+ Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for
+ Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a
+ href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available
+ on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a
+ straight binding to the C API.
-@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono oupdates.
+ Marco has <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted
+ an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler
+ for Mono.
- Brian Ritchie, Dan Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
+ We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the
+ JavaScript compiler as well (Janet)
+
+@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site
+
+ Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32
+ as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The
+ Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking
+ advantage of Unix facilities.
+
+ A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>.
+
+ Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS.
+ If you want to contribute please read <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this
+ message</a>
+
+ Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been
+ improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot
+ has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open
+ source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco
+ (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed
+ work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to
+ generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit).
+
+@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies.
+
+ <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono
+ Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software
+ announcements and the PHP/Mono integration.
+
+@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1
+
+ A <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary
+ release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble.
+ Release <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a>
+
+@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso.
+
+ Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux
+ World Expo. A description is <a
+ href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a>
+
+ Open Link has a <a
+ href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press
+ release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product
+ shipping that uses Mono.
+
+@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7
+
+ Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of
+ the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+ There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes
+ and performance improvements.
+
+ We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with
+ screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see
+ there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in
+ progress on the documentation browser.
+
+ <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a>
+
+@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released.
+
+ After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has
+ released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono
+ debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and
+ unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded
+ applications and should be relatively easy to port to new
+ platforms.
+
+ Details of the release are available in <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>.
+
+ The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
+ The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
+ by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
+ applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
+ flag to gcc).
+
+@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X
+
+ Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client.
+
+ MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
+ distribution, and MCS works with it.
+
+ Zoltan has managed to get <a
+ href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM
+ for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with
+ the Mono runtime.
+
+@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released
+
+ Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of
+ the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+
+@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News.
+
+ A new issue of the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono
+ Weekly News</a> has been published.
+
+ Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page
+ that Sebastien has put together.
+
+@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger.
+
+ Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to
+ the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has
+ improved this to use implicit names as well.
+
+ Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread
+ debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a
+ per-thread basis now.
+
+ Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate
+ Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo
+ has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they
+ are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the
+ mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono).
+
+ Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more
+ statements on the grammar.
+
+ Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a>
+ his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono.
+
+@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses.
+
+ <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a>
+ their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform
+ to run on Mono.
+
+ <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a
+ href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the
+ availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono.
+
+ Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a
+ href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a>
+ of their product, also using Mono.
+
+@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian.
+
+ Mike Kestner <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced
+ Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and
+ bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release.
+
+ Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17,
+ and its available from our <a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+ Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a>
+
+@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released
+
+ Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed
+ list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>.
+
+ Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new
+ System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET)
+ which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a
+ href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host
+ asp.net has been released as well.
+
+ This version also integrates Neale's s390 port.
+
+ This release also includes a new exception handling system
+ that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves
+ our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times).
+
+@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider.
+
+ Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for
+ classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method
+ invocation, local variables, and some statements). The
+ compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS.
+
+ Screenshots: <a
+ href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in
+ Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a
+ href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp).
+
+ Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS
+ repository as well.
+
+@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine.
+
+ <a
+ href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The
+ Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick
+ Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a
+ href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine.
+
+ <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint
+ announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a
+ href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a>
+ server on Unix using Mono.
+
+ Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET
+ tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This
+ tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to
+ use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>
+
+ Dennis Hayes has posted and <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a>
+ on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a
+ new test application that people can use to test their
+ controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms,
+ you can participate in the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms
+ mailing list</a>
+
+ Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a
+ href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data
+ layer</a> and an <a
+ href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application
+ server</a> for Mono.
+
+ Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman
+ continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes.
+
+ The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the
+ runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also,
+ compilation speed has increased recently by performing a
+ number of simple optimizations in the compiler.
+
+@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides
+
+ Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a>
+ as well as RSA <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>.
+ We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes.
+
+ Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it
+ can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this
+ new technology are <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>.
+ It works in Mono and the .NET Framework.
+
+ Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html">
+ Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly.
+
+ Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a
+ href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2">
+ here</a>.
+
+ Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can
+ see Windows screenshots for it <a
+ href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a
+ href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>.
+
+ Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi">
+ Mono Keynote presentation</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br>
+ The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a>
+
+ <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi">
+ Mono C# Compiler Overview</a>
+ </ul>
+
+ A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe
+ are available <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a>
+ in Open Office file format.
+
+@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates.
+
+ Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM
+ packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390.
+
+ Tim Coleman posted an <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a>
+ on the improvements in the System.Data
+
+ The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the
+ virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week.
+
+@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes.
+
+ Tim's SqlClient is <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now
+ capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server
+ using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client
+ running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on
+ Windows is shown <a
+ href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a>
+
+ Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all
+ supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are
+ present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has
+ been working on the Security classes.
+
+ Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick,
+ Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip),
+ compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who
+ has been providing bug reports for us to track down.
+
+ Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated
+ the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction.
+
+ In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer
+ bindings.
+
+ Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check
+ out the status pages for areas of collaboration.
+
+@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS.
+
+ Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked
+ into CVS.
+
+ The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the
+ System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting
+ interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed
+ ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to
+ easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has
+ now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes.
+
+ We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute
+ to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help
+ write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com
+ list</a> mailing list.
+
+ Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL
+ servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with
+ connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run
+ transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A
+ data adapter is also coming soon.
+
+@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger.
+
+ Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that
+ DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes
+ still have problems in some configurations and some areas that
+ are not supported by the .NET framework.
+
+ Last week we created a new <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing
+ list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation.
+
+ Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol
+ and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC
+ binding.
+
+ Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This
+ binding <a
+ href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is
+ unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support
+ complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one
+ representation of the types instead of two (the master types
+ is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>)
+ simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their
+ configuration to backend keys, following the <a
+ href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME
+ Human Interface Guidelines.</a>
+
+ Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a
+ number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The
+ major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged
+ applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We
+ will do some polishing of the user interface (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new
+ shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the
+ users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same
+ time as Mono 0.17.
+
+@item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation.
+
+ Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC
+ provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>.
+ Brian posted <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details
+ about the ODBC.NET</a> provider.
+
+ Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various
+ cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done
+ in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle
+ big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of
+ classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to
+ expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal
+ assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers).
+
+ Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at
+ file/line combos. This was more complex than generic
+ breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on
+ routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's
+ focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public
+ release of it.
+
+ We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate
+ module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the
+ necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation
+ browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will
+ be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono
+ Documentation Tools</a>.
+
+@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates.
+
+ Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have
been working on various database providers. The MySQL has
seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and
more extensive regression tests have been checked in.
Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the
- lowlevel bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
- daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer lear IPC
+ low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle
+ daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC
regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP
into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a
complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are
working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
the screenshot).
- <a href="http://gtksharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
+ <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of
activity specially as we start to build larger applications.
Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike
Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it.
System.DirectoryServices assembly.
Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
- classes implemetation.
+ classes implementation.
After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET
+ <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo.
+
Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port
on par with the PPC port.
himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
-@item Looking for volunteers
-
- We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
- of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
- contributions to:
-
- <ul>
- * More tests to the existing class libraries.
-
- * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
- href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
- all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
- the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
- configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
-
- * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
- create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
- library documentation.
-
- We have some special needs (read them <a
- href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
- prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
- it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
- it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
-
- * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
- to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
- applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
- Mono.
-
- * We need people to help write the documentation: you
- can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
- have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
- </ul>
-
-@item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
-
- Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
- MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
- assignment in the C# language.
-
-@item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
-
- Gonzalo <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
- an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
- working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
-
- Rachel quietly commited to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
- structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
- the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
-
- Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
- intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
- simplify the porting and maintenance process.
-
-@item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
-
- Zoltan <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
- the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
- and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
-
-@item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
-
- <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
- href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
- your sources for the <a
- href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
- <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
- <p>
- Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
- href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
- packages for Red Hat and they are <a
- href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
- And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
-
-@item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
-
- Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
- verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
-
- Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
- assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
- Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
- associated web service tools.
-
- Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
-
-@item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
-
- A spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
- href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
- Also the <a
- href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
- has been translated as well.
-
-@item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
-
- Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
- now landed on the CVS repository.
-
- The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
- (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
- mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
- the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
- universe and back.
-
- Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
- compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
-
-@item Jul 17th, 2002
-
- The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
- available online, from young director <a
- href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
- Monkey At Work"</a>.
-
- A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
- href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</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 resuling image still contained errors though.
-
- * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
- the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
- various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
-
- * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
- and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
- </ul>
-
- In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
- pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
- important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
-
- To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
- architecture specific code generation for trampolines
- (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
- use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
- Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
- port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
- code is cross platform.
-
-@item Jul 9th, 2002
-
- Ajay was the first to notice <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
- Mono's first birthday</a>.
-
- In a year, we have achieved plenty:
- <ul>
- * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
- * A complete CLI implementation:
- <ul>
- <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
- <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
- </ul>
- * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
- * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
- * 92,000 lines of C code.
- * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
- * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
- * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
- System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
- * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
- </ul>
-
- Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
- feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
- list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
- countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
- been possible without every contribution.
-
- It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
- project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
-
- Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
- looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
- Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
- `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
- scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
- GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
- to integrate with other object systems.
-
- Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
- year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
- all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
- code generation.
-
- A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
- to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
- regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
- down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
- track for so long.
-
-@item Jul 8th, 2002
-
- Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
- Linux/PowerPC.
-
- Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
- href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
- player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
- technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
- Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
- applications like these in the near future.
-
- Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
- code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
- means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
- architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
- folder and constant propagation are also done at the
- architecture independent layer.
-
- Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
- Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
- and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
- appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
- PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
- do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
- most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
- thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
- the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
- Linux.
-
- Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
- implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
- missing.
-
-@item Jul 3rd, 2002
-
- Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
- conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
- <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
-
- You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
- <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
-
- Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
- conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
- applications with it. Details are <a
- href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
- and <a
- href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
-
-@item Jun 30, 2002
-
- Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
- compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
- MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
- being defined at that point to perform compares).
-
- Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
- remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
- our resulting corlib.
-
- Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
-
- I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
- interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
- using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
- now a good development tool.
-
- Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
- there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
- Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
- bindings, that should simplify application development.
-
- A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
- Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
-
-@item Jun 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 Linxu for the
- first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
-
- Also, we are getting close to
- self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
- of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
-
- Steam is picking up in <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
- complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
- now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
- libraries, which is nice to see.
-
-@item Jun 20, 2002
-
- Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
- Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
- next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
-
- Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
- XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
- match the Microsoft implementation.
-
-@item Jun 19, 2002
-
- You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
- compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
- website</a>.
-
- New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
- http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
-
-@item Jun 10, 2002
-
- Ajay <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
- today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
-
-@item Jun 7, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
- Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Jun 3rd, 2002
-
- CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
-
-@item May 31, 2002
-
- Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
- .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
- It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
- upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
-
- Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
- been checked into CVS.
-
- Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
- PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
-
- <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
- a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
- started the OleDB using LibGDA.
-
-@item May 27, 2002
-
- An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
- Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
- that process this data.
-
- Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
- now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
-
-@item May 26, 2002
-
- Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
- System.Data class library.
-
-@item May 24, 2002
-
- Ajay <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
- checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
-
- Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
- templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
- and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
- ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
-
-@item May 22, 2002
-
- <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
- on the Mono runtime. This <a
- href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
- MonoLogo running Gtk#.
-
-@item May 21, 2002
-
- Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
- it is possible to get <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
- number</a> information on stack traces.
-
-@item May 20, 2002
-
- XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
- available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
- support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
-
- Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
- implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
-
- Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
- compiling most of our regression test suite.
-
- Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
- polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
-
- The Rafael and Chris have commited the beginning of the
- VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
-
- Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
-
-@item May 9, 2002
-
- Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
- engine. Read <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
- it</a>
-
-@item May 5, 2002
-
- We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
- using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
- types are supported right now but more are in the works.
-
- You can find more information
- at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
-
- Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
- and others for these bits.
-
-@item May 4th, 2002
-
- Rodrigo Moya announced <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
- LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
- This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
- should make it easier to use and compile.
-
- This is another milestone for our <a
- href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
-
- We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on tuesday ;-)
-
-@item May 2nd, 2002
-
- Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
- Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
- on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
-
- Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
- simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
- we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
- emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
- expose to applications.
-
- News from the <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
- support</a>, Mike <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
- the story</a>
-
-@item May 1st, 2002
-
- Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
- <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
-
-@item Apr 26, 2002
-
- Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
- href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
- (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
- <a
- href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
- to BaseLabs).
-
-@item Apr 24, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
- fixes and more classes are included.
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
- included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
- are available.
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Apr 23, 2002
-
- SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
-
- Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
- their new release.
-
-@item Apr 20, 2002
-
- Some updates from the hacking lines:
-
- <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
- http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
- is part of the ASP.NET support.
-
- <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
- hacking on MonoDoc.
-
- <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
- working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
- the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
- rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
- exceptions work). Check <a
- href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
- goodies.
-
- <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
- made the compiler twice as fast this week:
-
- Early this week Patrik started the string
- rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
- constructors and deployed the new layout.
-
- Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
- turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
-
- Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
- with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
- representation.
-
- At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
- implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
- together are very powerful.
-
- <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
- with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
- Ravi, Sergey)
-
-
-@item Apr 18, 2002
-
- Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
- CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
-
- Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
- our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
- on CVS as well.
-
-@item Apr 11, 2002
-
- Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
-
- Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
- href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
- people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
-
-@item Apr 6, 2002
-
- <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
- Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
- helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
- resource for anyone interested in remoting.
-
-@item Apr 5, 2002
-
- Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
- Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
- This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
- Mono.
-
-@item Mar 28, 2002
-
- Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
- to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
- single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
- the details.
-
-@item Mar 27, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
- been released.
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
- included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
- are available.
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Mar 26, 2002
-
- Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
- us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
- CVS.
-
- <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
- href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
- World</a>. Mike posted some <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
-
-
-@item Mar 19, 2002
-
- Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
- on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
- the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
- debugging information).
-
- Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
- allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
-
- The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
- also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
- chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
-
- Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
- support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
- internal calls.
-
- Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
- environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
- us to run the compiler on Linux.
-
- Remember to post your bug reports.
-
- The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
- endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
- report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
- in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
-
-@item Mar 12, 2002
-
- At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
- host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
- hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
-
- A release will follow up shortly.
-
-@item Mar 9, 2002
-
- Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
- it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
- assembly.
-
-@item Mar 7, 2002
-
- MCS compiles on Linux!
-
- Today Paolo got the <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
- compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
- completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
- some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
- and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
- speed was improved in 400%
-
- We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
-
- Mono is temporarly using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
- we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
-
-@item Mar 5, 2002
-
- The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
-
- Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
- classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
- the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
-
- Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
- revamped regression test suite.
-
- Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
- status</a> page again, with even more information available.
-
- The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
- killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
-
-@item Mar 1, 2002
-
- RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
-
-@item Feb 28, 2002
-
- <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
- has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
- shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
-
- RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
-
-@item Feb 27, 2002
-
- New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
- provides detailed information about missing functionality in
- our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
- did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
-
- More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
- enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
- Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
-
-@item Feb 26, 2002
-
- Paolo posted a list of <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
- you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
- <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
- suggestions.
-
-@item Feb 25, 2002
-
- StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
-
-@item Feb 24, 2002
-
- SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
-
- Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
-
-@item Feb 22, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
- href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
-
-@item Feb 21, 2002
-
- Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
- Self hosting is closer every day.
-
- Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
-
-@item Feb 20, 2002
-
- Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
-
- C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
-
- New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
- is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
- Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
- above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
-
- There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
- use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
- you will get one of the machines.
-
-@item Feb 19, 2002
-
- Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
-
-@item Feb 18, 2002
-
- Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
- modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
- this with the --share-code command line option.
-
- Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
- libraries.
-
- PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
-
-@item Feb 13, 2002
-
- Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
-
- AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
- (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
- comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
- regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
- New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
-
- Miguel is off to the <a
- href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
-
-@item Feb 11, 2002
-
- <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
-
- A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
- been packaged for your download pleasure.
-
- You can get it <a
- href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
- href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
- href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
-
-@item Feb 11, 2002
-
- We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
- joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
- are rapidly moving.
-
- An explanation of the relationship between <a
- href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
- and Mono</a>.
-
- Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
- stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
- for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
- stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
-
- We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
- non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
- for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
- other systems.
-
- There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
- a set of web server classes for <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
- ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
-
- Paolo also <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
- posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
-
-@item Feb 10, 2002
-
- Mike Kestner has posted an <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
- on his Gtk#</a> activities.
-
-@item Feb 4, 2002
-
- Adam has done <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
- bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
-
-@item Jan 29, 2002
-
- Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
- Mono: <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
- System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
-
- This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
- fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
- was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
- set of the Perl regex engine).
-
-@item Jan 28, 2002
-
- The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
- the terms of the
- <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
-
- This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
- (most notably, the XFree86 project).
-
- The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
- the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
-
- Our <a
- href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
- Release</a>
-
- Press coverage: <a
- href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
- href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
- <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
- <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
-
-@item Jan 23, 2002
-
- New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
- This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
- to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
-
- This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
- code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
- expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
-
-@item Jan 21, 2002
-
- Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
- Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
- <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
-
- Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
- non-Windows platforms.
-
- C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
- the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
- tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
- reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
- has begun.
-
-@item Jan 8, 2002
-
- Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
- the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
- Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
- the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
- Linux.
-
-@item Jan 4, 2002
-
- Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
- runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
- "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
- here</a>
-
- Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
- compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
- ChangeLog entries.
-
-@item Jan 4, 2002
-
- Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
- href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
- year, new direction</i></a>.
-
- Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
- System.Windows.Forms.
-
-@item Jan 3, 2002
-
- Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
- development of the compiler with itself.
-
- Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
- self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
- on Linux before the end of the month.
-
- Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
- href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
- <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
-
-@item Dec 28, 2001
-
- After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
- There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
- being fixed quickly.
-
- We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
-
-@item Dec 18, 2001
-
- JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
-
- JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
-
- System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
- PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
-
- C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
- the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
- more programs.
-
-@item Dec 14, 2001
-
- Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
- two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
-
- The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
- implementation is there.
-
-@item Dec 11, 2001
-
- The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
- well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
- recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
- allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
- and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
- reduce spills and reloads.
-
- On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
- much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
- visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
- analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
-
- You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
-
- More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
- libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
- `make test' going.
-
-@item Dec 1, 2001
-
- AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
- to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
- Climent for helping to set this up.
-
-@item Nov 30, 2001
-
- All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
- (Dietmar).
-
- Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
- working now (Ravi).
-
- More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
-
-@item Nov 28, 2001
-
- JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
- Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
-
- The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
- switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
- new more tests.
-
- Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
-
- Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
-
-@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 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>
-
-@item 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>
-
-@item 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>
-
-@item 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>
-
-@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 othre 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 consits 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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