+<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="index.rss"/>
+
+<table>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
- launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
- implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
+ 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
Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
- source</a> for our work so far. Or you can grab a <a
- href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work.
+ source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a
+ href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a
+ href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">browse
+ the sources</a>
You might want to <a
- href="resources.html#mailing">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
+ href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
and mono-announce-list
You can contact the team at: <a
href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <table border=1>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
+ Self hosting on .NET.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>JIT</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Linux/x86 working.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>Interpreter</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Working:<br>
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br>
+ In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Corlib is self hosting.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ RSS feed:
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+@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
+ 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.
-** Jan 8, 2002
+@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
the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
Linux.
-** Jan 4, 2002
+@item Jan 4, 2002
Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
ChangeLog entries.
-** Jan 4, 2002
+@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
Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
System.Windows.Forms.
-** Jan 3, 2002
+@item Jan 3, 2002
Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
development of the compiler with itself.
href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
<a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
-** Dec 28, 2001
+@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
We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
-** Dec 18, 2001
+@item Dec 18, 2001
JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
more programs.
-** Dec 14, 2001
+@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.
-** Dec 11, 2001
+@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
libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
`make test' going.
-** Dec 1, 2001
+@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.
-** Nov 30, 2001
+@item Nov 30, 2001
All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
(Dietmar).
More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
-** Nov 28, 2001
+@item Nov 28, 2001
JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
-** Nov 16, 2001
+@item Nov 16, 2001
<blockquote>
Mike Kestner has posted an <a
on Gtk# development.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 14, 2001
+@item Nov 14, 2001
<blockquote>
Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
replace our interpreter in production.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 12, 2001
+@item Nov 12, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 8, 2001
+@item Nov 8, 2001
<blockquote>
Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 5, 2001
+@item Nov 5, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
tests running now.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 4, 2001
+@item Nov 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
important piece of the puzzle.
</blockquote>
-** Nov 3, 2001
+@item Nov 3, 2001
<blockquote>
Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
</blockquote>
-** Nov 1, 2001
+@item Nov 1, 2001
<blockquote>
Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
the array handling support.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 27, 2001
+@item Oct 27, 2001
<blockquote>
Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this
.defs files to quickly wrap the API.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 18, 2001
+@item Oct 18, 2001
<blockquote>
Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
recent C# compiler progress.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 17, 2001
+@item Oct 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
(definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 15, 2001
+@item Oct 15, 2001
<blockquote>
JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
classes.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 5, 2001
+@item Oct 5, 2001
<blockquote>
Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
eventually.
</blockquote>
-** Oct 4, 2001
+@item Oct 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
basically focusing on completeness now.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 28, 2001
+@item Sep 28, 2001
<blockquote>
<a
Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 26, 2001
+@item Sep 26, 2001
<blockquote>
More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
handled correctly (Miguel).
</blockquote>
-** Sep 21, 2001
+@item Sep 21, 2001
<blockquote>
A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
</blockquote>
-** Sep 19, 2001
+@item Sep 19, 2001
<blockquote>
Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
Mono</a> to othre architectures.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 18, 2001
+@item Sep 18, 2001
<blockquote>
<A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
0.7 announcement</a> for details
</blockquote>
-** Sep 17, 2001
+@item Sep 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Mike Kestner's Gtk# (Gtk-sharp) was checked into the CVS
Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set.
</blockquote>
-** Sep 10, 2001
+@item Sep 10, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
</blockquote>
-** Sep 5, 2001
+@item Sep 5, 2001
<blockquote>
The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b>
August 28)
</blockquote>
-** Sep 4, 2001
+@item Sep 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
</blockquote>
-** Aug 28, 2001
+@item Aug 28, 2001
<blockquote>
<b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
Good work Mono team!
</blockquote>
-** Aug 23, 2001
+@item Aug 23, 2001
<blockquote>
Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
</blockquote>
-** Aug 22, 2001
+@item Aug 22, 2001
<blockquote>
New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been
href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>.
</blockquote>
-** Aug 20, 2001
+@item Aug 20, 2001
<blockquote>
A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a>
</blockquote>
-** Aug 3, 2001
+@item Aug 3, 2001
<blockquote>
Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
run every night at 10pm Boston time.
</blockquote>
-** Jul 29, 2001
+@item Jul 29, 2001
<blockquote>
Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a
href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 25, 2001
+@item Jul 25, 2001
<blockquote>
The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my
Open Source Software Convention</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 22, 2001
+@item Jul 22, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 19, 2001
+@item Jul 19, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
href="download.html#july-19">here</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 17, 2001
+@item Jul 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a
Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>.
- Got Sean's new <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
- Status</a> web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
+ Got Sean's new Class
+ Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
we are now keeping better track of contributors.
</blockquote>
-** Jul 15, 2001
+@item Jul 15, 2001
<blockquote>
Another release of Mono is out, check the <a
href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
</blockquote>
-** Jul 14, 2001
+@item Jul 14, 2001
<blockquote>
A <a
runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 12, 2001
+@item Jul 12, 2001
<blockquote>
I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when
href="passport.html">wrote something.</a>
</blockquote>
-** Jul 9, 2001
+@item Jul 9, 2001
<blockquote>
Project launched.
</blockquote>
-** O'Reilly
+@item O'Reilly
<blockquote>
Brian posted a story on <a
projects / mono.git / blobdiff