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<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
- launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
- implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
+ launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source
+ implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
- Common Language Infrastructure and a set of <a
+ Common Language Infrastructure
(the CLR) and a set of <a
href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
Corlib is self hosting.
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+@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 with every contribution.
+
+ It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
+ project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
+
+ Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
+ looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
+ Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
+ `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
+ scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
+ GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
+ to integrate with other object systems.
+
+ Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
+ year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
+ all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
+ code generation.
+
+ A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
+ to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
+ regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
+ down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
+ track for so long.
+
+@item Jul 8th, 2002
+
+ Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
+ Linux/PowerPC.
+
+ Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
+ href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
+ player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
+ technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
+ Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
+ applications like these in the near future.
+
+ Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
+ code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
+ means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
+ architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
+ folder and constant propagation are also done at the
+ architecture independent layer.
+
+ Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
+ Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
+ and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
+ appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
+ PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
+ do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
+ most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
+ thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
+ the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
+ Linux.
+
+ Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
+ implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
+ missing.
+
+@item Jul 3rd, 2002
+
+ Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
+ conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
+ <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
+
+ You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
+ <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
+
+ Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
+ conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
+ applications with it. Details are <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
+
+@item Jun 30, 2002
+
+ Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
+ compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
+ MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
+ being defined at that point to perform compares).
+
+ Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
+ remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
+ our resulting corlib.
+
+ Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
+
+ I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
+ interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
+ using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
+ now a good development tool.
+
+ Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
+ there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
+ Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
+ bindings, that should simplify application development.
+
+ A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
+ Windows.Forms work together, and commiting so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
+
+@item Jun 24, 2002
+
+ Duncan has written a few sample <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">gtk# demo apps</a>..
+
+@item Jun 20, 2002
+
+ Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
+ Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
+ next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
+
+ Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
+ XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
+ match the Microsoft implementation.
+
+@item Jun 19, 2002
+
+ You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
+ compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
+ website</a>.
+
+ New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
+ http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
+
+@item Jun 10, 2002
+
+ Ajay <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
+ today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
+
+@item Jun 7, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
+ Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+@item Jun 3rd, 2002
+
+ CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
+
+@item May 31, 2002
+
+ Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
+ .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
+ It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
+ upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
+
+ Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
+ been checked into CVS.
+
+ Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
+ PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
+
+ <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
+ a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
+ started the OleDB using LibGDA.
+
+@item May 27, 2002
+
+ An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
+ Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
+ that process this data.
+
+ Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
+ now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
+
@item May 26, 2002
Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
@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>
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
+ it</a>
@item May 5, 2002
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