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+ <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
- 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
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>
-** Sep 18, 2001
+ In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
+ about the team members we have created the <a
+ href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
+ Which archives can be found <a
+ href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <table border=1>
+ <tr>
+ <td colspan="3">
+ <b><center>Mono Status</center></b>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br>
+ Self hosting on .NET.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>JIT</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Linux/x86 working.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>Interpreter</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Working:<br>
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390<br>
+ In progress:<br>
+ StrongARM, SPARC.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ All assemblies compile.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ RSS feed:
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+@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.
+
+@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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ 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
+ 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
+ able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you
+ want. This also includes support for the system-wide
+ configuration file `machine.config'.
+
+ Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how
+ it looks <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>.
+ Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are
+ working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on
+ the screenshot).
+
+ <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.
+ mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and
+ Gtk# is seen <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>.
+
+ Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to
+ work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation.
+
+ Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our
+ new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress.
+ The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of
+ more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be
+ chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular
+ processor, or use profile-based information to improve the
+ performance.
+
+@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates.
+
+ Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
+ href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>.
+
+ Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code.
+ Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and
+ breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his
+ debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level
+ single-stepping).
+
+@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey.
+
+ Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono
+ Survey</a>
+
+@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban
+
+ The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a>
+ continues to show our appreciation to the excellent
+ contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free
+ software project.
+
+ This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has
+ been a long time contributor to the project, from the early
+ work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's
+ origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs
+ Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT
+ engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit.
+
+
+@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms
+
+ Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We
+ have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have
+ chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code
+ inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file
+ that will hold the entry points to document. All master files
+ for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now.
+
+ Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been
+ checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be
+ updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out.
+
+ Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages,
+ but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code
+ (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile
+ your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level
+ step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk#
+ UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue
+ code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working
+ on making a good UI in the future.
+
+ Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in
+ Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries.
+ This is the substrate for implementing the
+ System.DirectoryServices assembly.
+
+ Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic
+ classes implementation.
+
+ After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a
+ href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>.
+ Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was
+ going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So
+ the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based
+ implementation.
+
+@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available
+
+ The <a
+ href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET
+ ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo
+ will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono
+ runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner
+ will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and
+ the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will
+ be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on
+ the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday.
+
+@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration
+
+ <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a>
+ announced an Apache module that hosts
+ Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the
+ module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding
+ API.
+
+@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released
+
+ Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was
+ released a fresh version of <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>.
+
+@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released
+
+ Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a
+ href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a>
+
+@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono.
+
+ Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to
+ the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards
+ cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the
+ merger on our side.
+
+ His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach
+ that mono used, which was unreliable under certain
+ circumstances.
+
+@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.
+
+ Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers
+ to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support
+ code for the remoting infrastructure.
+
+ More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based
+ providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed
+ their first query.
+
+@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET
+
+ Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C#
+ compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation
+ speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a
+ 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds.
+
+ Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting
+ corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as
+ well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a
+ href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>.
+
+ On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting
+ support, exception handling, as well as completing the support
+ for structure marshaling.
+
+ Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure
+ is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP
+ into our main class library and providing the missing pieces
+ to integrate with Patrik's code.
+
+ Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based
+ implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner
+ cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again.
+
+ A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been
+ checked into CVS.
+
+@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame
+
+ The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started
+ to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b>
+ a successful free software project.
+
+ The first, deserved, entry goes to
+ Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing
+ infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured
+ himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping
+ Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase.
+
+@item Looking for volunteers
+
+ We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces
+ of Mono and help move the project forward, we need
+ contributions to:
+
+ <ul>
+ * More tests to the existing class libraries.
+
+ * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
+ href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
+ all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
+ the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
+ configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
+
+ * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
+ create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
+ library documentation.
+
+ We have some special needs (read them <a
+ href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
+ prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
+ it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
+ it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
+
+ * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
+ to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
+ applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
+ Mono.
+
+ * We need people to help write the documentation: you
+ can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
+ have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
+ </ul>
+
+@item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis
+
+ Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for
+ MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite
+ assignment in the C# language.
+
+@item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs.
+
+ Gonzalo <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted
+ an update</a> on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is
+ working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline
+
+ Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling
+ structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively
+ the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime.
+
+ Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his
+ intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and
+ simplify the porting and maintenance process.
+
+@item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono.
+
+ Zoltan <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a>
+ the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled
+ and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code.
+
+@item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released.
+
+ <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get
+ your sources for the <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and
+ <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>.
+ <p>
+ Alp made Debian packages and they are <a
+ href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made
+ packages for Red Hat and they are <a
+ href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>.
+ And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a>
+
+@item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples.
+
+ Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to
+ verify an image by using the `pedump' tool.
+
+ Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services
+ assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page).
+ Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the
+ associated web service tools.
+
+ Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS.
+
+@item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial.
+
+ A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is <a
+ href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>.
+ Also the <a
+ href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a>
+ has been translated as well.
+
+@item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation.
+
+ Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has
+ now landed on the CVS repository.
+
+ The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application
+ (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in
+ mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with
+ the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL
+ universe and back.
+
+ Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to
+ compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>.
+
+@item Jul 17th, 2002
+
+ The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now
+ available online, from young director <a
+ href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code
+ Monkey At Work"</a>.
+
+ A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>.
+
+ More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are
+ now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs
+ from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP
+ (this implements the .aspx compiler).
+
+ Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see
+ some screenshots: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
+ <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a Russian charset</a>.
+
+@item Jul 16th, 2002
+
+ Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This
+ means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C#
+ compiler and the Mono runtime.
+
+ Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that
+ the compiler uses during the compilation process will come
+ from the source code it is compiling.
+
+ After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all
+ the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles
+ to compile with the Mono tool-chain.
+
+ A recapitulation:
+ <ul>
+ * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
+ The resulting image contained errors though.
+
+ * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
+ January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
+
+ * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
+ was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
+ This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
+
+ * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
+ run the compiler on Linux.
+
+ * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
+ compiling the `corlib'. The resulting image still contained errors though.
+
+ * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
+ the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
+ various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
+
+ * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
+ and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
+ </ul>
+
+ In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining
+ pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very
+ important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings.
+
+ To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the
+ architecture specific code generation for trampolines
+ (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to
+ use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT
+ Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to
+ port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline
+ code is cross platform.
+
+@item Jul 9th, 2002
+
+ Ajay was the first to notice <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html">
+ Mono's first birthday</a>.
+
+ In a year, we have achieved plenty:
+ <ul>
+ * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers).
+ * A complete CLI implementation:
+ <ul>
+ <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation).
+ <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm).
+ </ul>
+ * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries.
+ * 37,140 file changes in CVS.
+ * 92,000 lines of C code.
+ * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests)
+ * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
+ * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions,
+ System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web.
+ * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly.
+ </ul>
+
+ Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their
+ feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing
+ list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the
+ countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have
+ been possible without every contribution.
+
+ It has been a great year for everyone involved in the
+ project. I think we have built a new and exciting community.
+
+ Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year
+ looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more
+ Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an
+ `library' to be linked with applications that want to get
+ scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice
+ GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings
+ to integrate with other object systems.
+
+ Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this
+ year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and
+ all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono
+ code generation.
+
+ A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing
+ to survive their manager and a special thanks to our
+ regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting
+ down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on
+ track for so long.
+
+@item Jul 8th, 2002
+
+ Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on
+ Linux/PowerPC.
+
+ Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of <a
+ href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, a media
+ player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed
+ technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by
+ Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting
+ applications like these in the near future.
+
+ Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific
+ code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This
+ means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less
+ architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant
+ folder and constant propagation are also done at the
+ architecture independent layer.
+
+ Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on
+ Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though,
+ and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be
+ appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the
+ PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to
+ do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do
+ most of the work), charts and components like the kind of
+ thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to
+ the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of
+ Linux.
+
+ Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that
+ implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is
+ missing.
+
+@item Jul 3rd, 2002
+
+ Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT
+ conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are
+ <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a>
+
+ You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip:
+ <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a>
+
+ Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly
+ conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing
+ applications with it. Details are <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>
+
+@item Jun 30, 2002
+
+ Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to
+ compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way
+ MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are
+ being defined at that point to perform compares).
+
+ Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the
+ remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with
+ our resulting corlib.
+
+ Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS.
+
+ I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The
+ interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane
+ using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is
+ now a good development tool.
+
+ Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now
+ there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by
+ Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME
+ bindings, that should simplify application development.
+
+ A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the
+ Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms.
+
+@item Jun 25, 2002
+
+ I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in
+ Uruguay, the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a>
+ to promote free software is going very well.
+
+ Many news in Mono-land this week so far:
+
+ Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#,
+ this is using GtkHTML 2.0.
+
+ On Monday Piers Haken <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a>
+ the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is
+ implemented (modulo a few pending bits).
+
+ Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes:
+ process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to
+ query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32
+ environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible.
+ This means for example that any process can check on the
+ status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship)
+
+ Of course, those interested
+ in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls.
+
+@item Jun 24, 2002
+
+
+ Duncan has written a few sample <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo
+ applications</a> (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen
+ shot</a>, <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>)
+
+ Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>).
+ She also got some <a
+ href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a>
+ up now.
+
+@item Jun 22, 2002
+
+ Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the
+ first time (Gonzalo and Paolo).
+
+ Also, we are getting close to
+ self hosting. Paolo posted a <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list
+ of pending issues</a> which are now very small.
+
+ Steam is picking up in <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> as the bindings become more
+ complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk#
+ now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML
+ libraries, which is nice to see.
+
+@item Jun 20, 2002
+
+ Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html
+ Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is
+ next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono.
+
+ Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the
+ XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to
+ match the Microsoft implementation.
+
+@item Jun 19, 2002
+
+ You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS
+ compiler daily from <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's
+ website</a>.
+
+ New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href="
+ http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>.
+
+@item Jun 10, 2002
+
+ Ajay <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a>
+ today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete.
+
+@item Jun 7, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code!
+ Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs!
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+@item Jun 3rd, 2002
+
+ CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support.
+
+@item May 31, 2002
+
+ Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET
+ .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes.
+ It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to
+ upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux.
+
+ Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has
+ been checked into CVS.
+
+ Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map
+ PInvoke dlls to other libraries).
+
+ <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: Daniel has checked in
+ a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo
+ started the OleDB using LibGDA.
+
+@item May 27, 2002
+
+ An <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the
+ Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools
+ that process this data.
+
+ Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> are
+ now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard.
+
+@item May 26, 2002
+
+ Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the
+ System.Data class library.
+
+@item May 24, 2002
+
+ Ajay <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has
+ checked in</a> a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace.
+
+ Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for
+ templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render
+ and data binding tags, style properties in style tags,
+ ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties.
+
+@item May 22, 2002
+
+ <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs
+ on the Mono runtime. This <a
+ href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows
+ MonoLogo running Gtk#.
+
+@item May 21, 2002
+
+ Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now
+ it is possible to get <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line
+ number</a> information on stack traces.
+
+@item May 20, 2002
+
+ XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .aspx page parser is now
+ available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET
+ support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it.
+
+ Many updates to the <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET
+ implementation</a> from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo.
+
+ Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and
+ compiling most of our regression test suite.
+
+ Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and
+ polishing the underlying network infrastructure.
+
+ The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the
+ VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS.
+
+ Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter
+
+@item May 9, 2002
+
+ Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT
+ engine. Read <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about
+ it</a>
+
+@item May 5, 2002
+
+ We are able to retrieve simple data from the database
+ using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data
+ types are supported right now but more are in the works.
+
+ You can find more information
+ at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a>
+
+ Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim,
+ and others for these bits.
+
+@item May 4th, 2002
+
+ Rodrigo Moya announced <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new
+ LibGDA</a>: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems.
+ This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which
+ should make it easier to use and compile.
+
+ This is another milestone for our <a
+ href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a>
+
+ We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-)
+
+@item May 2nd, 2002
+
+ Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and
+ Richard Hestilow's <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> are now
+ on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS.
+
+ Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as
+ simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now
+ we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully
+ emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API
+ expose to applications.
+
+ News from the <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu
+ support</a>, Mike <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells
+ the story</a>
+
+@item May 1st, 2002
+
+ Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available
+ <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>
+
+@item Apr 26, 2002
+
+ Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a
+ href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a>
+ (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for
+ <a
+ href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks
+ to BaseLabs).
+
+@item Apr 24, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> Mostly performance improvements, bug
+ fixes and more classes are included.
+
+ A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
+ been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
+ included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a>
+ are available.
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+@item Apr 23, 2002
+
+ SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a>
+
+ Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for
+ their new release.
+
+@item Apr 20, 2002
+
+ Some updates from the hacking lines:
+
+ <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the
+ http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This
+ is part of the ASP.NET support.
+
+ <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been
+ hacking on MonoDoc.
+
+ <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been
+ working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> support, and got
+ the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert
+ rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and
+ exceptions work). Check <a
+ href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the
+ goodies.
+
+ <b>Optimizations:</b> A number of optimizations in the runtime
+ made the compiler twice as fast this week:
+
+ Early this week Patrik started the string
+ rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the
+ constructors and deployed the new layout.
+
+ Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in
+ turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved.
+
+ Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues
+ with our current array layout, and contributed a new array
+ representation.
+
+ At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and
+ implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations
+ together are very powerful.
+
+ <b>Bug fixing:</b> And of course everyone has been helping out
+ with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick,
+ Ravi, Sergey)
+
+
+@item Apr 18, 2002
+
+ Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into
+ CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later.
+
+ Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing
+ our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes
+ on CVS as well.
+
+@item Apr 11, 2002
+
+ Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a>
+
+ Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a
+ href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for
+ people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms.
+
+@item Apr 6, 2002
+
+ <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp">
+ Advanced .NET Remoting</a> from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo
+ helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable
+ resource for anyone interested in remoting.
+
+@item Apr 5, 2002
+
+ Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to
+ Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation.
+ This should enable people to test the remoting framework on
+ Mono.
+
+@item Mar 28, 2002
+
+ Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks
+ to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to
+ single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with
+ the details.
+
+@item Mar 27, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> The self hosting release of Mono has
+ been released.
+
+ A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
+ been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are
+ included. The <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a>
+ are available.
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+@item Mar 26, 2002
+
+ Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped
+ us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on
+ CVS.
+
+ <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a
+ href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello
+ World</a>. Mike posted some <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a>
+
+
+@item Mar 19, 2002
+
+ Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both
+ on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on
+ the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating
+ debugging information).
+
+ Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace,
+ allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code.
+
+ The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are
+ also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large
+ chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace
+
+ Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls
+ support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become
+ internal calls.
+
+ Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime
+ environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing
+ us to run the compiler on Linux.
+
+ Remember to post your bug reports.
+
+ The nice class status on the right is brought to you by
+ endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status
+ report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes
+ in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself)
+
+@item Mar 12, 2002
+
+ At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self
+ host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self
+ hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux.
+
+ A release will follow up shortly.
+
+@item Mar 9, 2002
+
+ Updated the <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, now
+ it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific
+ assembly.
+
+@item Mar 7, 2002
+
+ MCS compiles on Linux!
+
+ Today Paolo got the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS
+ compiler compiling itself on Linux</a>
+ completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains
+ some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day
+ and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile
+ speed was improved in 400%
+
+ We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now.
+
+ Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while
+ we deploy the more advanced ORP one.
+
+@item Mar 5, 2002
+
+ The CVS repository <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a>
+
+ Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml
+ classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have
+ the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented.
+
+ Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently
+ revamped regression test suite.
+
+ Piers has updated our <a href="class-status.html">class
+ status</a> page again, with even more information available.
+
+ The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi
+ killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a>
+
+@item Mar 1, 2002
+
+ RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a>
+
+@item Feb 28, 2002
+
+ <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a>
+ has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> web site, which
+ shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system.
+
+ RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a>
+
+@item Feb 27, 2002
+
+ New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> engine that
+ provides detailed information about missing functionality in
+ our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers
+ did the XSLT and DHTML magic.
+
+ More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now
+ enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being
+ Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-)
+
+@item Feb 26, 2002
+
+ Paolo posted a list of <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways
+ you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with
+ <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a>
+ suggestions.
+
+@item Feb 25, 2002
+
+ StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
+
+@item Feb 24, 2002
+
+ SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
+
+ Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
+
+@item Feb 22, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b>
+
+ A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
+ been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a>
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>).
+
+@item Feb 21, 2002
+
+ Paolo got our compiler natively to compile 117 of our tests.
+ Self hosting is closer every day.
+
+ Unsafe support is finished in the C# compiler.
+
+@item Feb 20, 2002
+
+ Gaurav got DataGrid and DataGridItemCollection done.
+
+ C# compiler: Unsafe support is mostly complete (only stackalloc is missing).
+
+ New easy to run scripts for compiling Mono on Unix and Windows
+ is <a href="download.html">available</a>. We can now easily compile
+ Mono on Windows and Linux. If you had trouble before, use the
+ above scripts which will get the setup right for you.
+
+ There are now three machines that can provide AnonCVS, just
+ use anoncvs.go-mono.com as the hostname for your CVSROOT and
+ you will get one of the machines.
+
+@item Feb 19, 2002
+
+ Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
+
+@item Feb 18, 2002
+
+ Application Domains now support the two LoaderOptimization
+ modes: share code or do not share code, and you can control
+ this with the --share-code command line option.
+
+ Paolo has now 100+ test cases run on Linux now with our class
+ libraries.
+
+ PowerPC and SPARC ports are moving along (Radek and Jeff)
+
+@item Feb 13, 2002
+
+ Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
+
+ AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
+ (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
+ comprehensive tests for corlib bits (David). Nick is driving the
+ regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
+ New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
+
+ Miguel is off to the <a
+ href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
+
+@item Feb 11, 2002
+
+ <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b>
+
+ A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has
+ been packaged for your download pleasure.
+
+ You can get it <a
+ href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a
+ href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a
+ href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>)
+
+@item Feb 11, 2002
+
+ We would like to welcome all the new developers that have
+ joined the project in the last couple of days. The classes
+ are rapidly moving.
+
+ An explanation of the relationship between <a
+ href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME
+ and Mono</a>.
+
+ Nick is still leading our test suite platform. I can not
+ stress how important it is to have a good regression test suite
+ for our platform, as buggy class libraries are what are
+ stopping the compiler from running completely on Linux.
+
+ We are of course psyched to see Mono run on
+ non-Linux systems. Work is moving on native code generation
+ for StrongARM, PowerPC, and SPARC as well as porting Mono to
+ other systems.
+
+ There are a couple of debates on the Mono list on implementing
+ a set of web server classes for <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling
+ ASP.NET</a> on Mono.
+
+ Paolo also <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html">
+ posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux
+
+@item Feb 10, 2002
+
+ Mike Kestner has posted an <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update
+ on his Gtk#</a> activities.
+
+@item Feb 4, 2002
+
+ Adam has done <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt
+ bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool.
+
+@item Jan 29, 2002
+
+ Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to
+ Mono: <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html">
+ System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>.
+
+ This is a fully .NET compatible implementation of the .NET regular expressions,
+ fully Unicode aware. This contribution is very appreciated, as implementing this
+ was not entirely trivial (supporting Unicode, plus a regex engine which is a super
+ set of the Perl regex engine).
+
+@item Jan 28, 2002
+
+ The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under
+ the terms of the
+ <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> license.
+
+ This license is an Open Source license, and is used by other projects
+ (most notably, the XFree86 project).
+
+ The runtime (JIT, metadata library, interpreter) remains under
+ the LGPL and the C# compiler remains under the GPL.
+
+ Our <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press
+ Release</a>
+
+ Press coverage: <a
+ href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a
+ href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>,
+ <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>.
+
+@item Jan 23, 2002
+
+ New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>.
+ This mailing list will receive automatically the patches that are submitted
+ to the Mono CVS to any of its modules.
+
+ This allows anyone who wants to participate in the peer-review of the
+ code submitted to CVS to receive patches on e-mail. It should also
+ expose to everyone the changes that are being done by the team every day.
+
+@item Jan 21, 2002
+
+ Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
+ Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
+ <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
+
+ Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
+ non-Windows platforms.
+
+ C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
+ the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
+ tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
+ reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
+ has begun.
+
+@item Jan 8, 2002
+
+ Our compiler has been self-supporting since January 3rd. In
+ the meantime, we have been busy working on making it run on
+ Linux. Today Paolo got more work done on Reflection.Emit and
+ the compiler compiled `console.cs' (a sample Mono program) on
+ Linux.
+
+@item Jan 4, 2002
+
+ Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
+ runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
+ "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
+ here</a>
+
+ Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
+ compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have
+ ChangeLog entries.
+
+@item Jan 4, 2002
+
+ Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New
+ year, new direction</i></a>.
+
+ Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing
+ System.Windows.Forms.
+
+@item Jan 3, 2002
+
+ Mono C# compiler becomes self-sufficient. We can now continue
+ development of the compiler with itself.
+
+ Work on the class libraries is still underway for having a full
+ self hosting system. We hope to achieve our goal of self-hosting
+ on Linux before the end of the month.
+
+ Join the fun by downloading either tonight's <a
+ href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our
+ <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>.
+
+@item Dec 28, 2001
+
+ After a lot of work, the C# compiler can compile itself.
+ There are still errors in the generated image, but they are
+ being fixed quickly.
+
+ We will soon have the first non-Microsoft C# implementation!
+
+@item Dec 18, 2001
+
+ JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick).
+
+ JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar)
+
+ System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and
+ PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase.
+
+ C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of
+ the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile
+ more programs.
+
+@item Dec 14, 2001
+
+ Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs
+ two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing.
+
+ The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface
+ implementation is there.
+
+@item Dec 11, 2001
+
+ The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as
+ well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added
+ recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register
+ allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness)
+ and that will be the next major task to improve performance and
+ reduce spills and reloads.
+
+ On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty
+ much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support,
+ visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow
+ analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed.
+
+ You can get your copy of the <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a>
+
+ More work is also required on fixing the foundation class
+ libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the
+ `make test' going.
+
+@item Dec 1, 2001
+
+ AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks
+ to <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> and Jesus
+ Climent for helping to set this up.
+
+@item Nov 30, 2001
+
+ All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now
+ (Dietmar).
+
+ Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are
+ working now (Ravi).
+
+ More work on the Web classes (Gaurav).
+
+@item Nov 28, 2001
+
+ JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while
+ Dietmar added exceptions support to it.
+
+ The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the
+ switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many
+ new more tests.
+
+ Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite.
+
+ Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer.
+
+@item Nov 16, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Mike Kestner has posted an <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a>
+ on Gtk# development.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Nov 14, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on
+ Linux</a>. It compiles a sample program and then the sample
+ program is executed.
+
+ Mutator unary operators (++ and --) in the compiler are fully
+ functional, they used to only work on variables, and now they
+ are complete.
+
+ To sum things up: The Mono C# compiler is written in C# and
+ uses the .NET classes to get its work done. To make this work
+ on Linux work has to happen in various fronts:
+<ul>
+ * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile
+ many programs now (our test suite at this point is
+ made up of 40 tests).
+
+ * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support
+ the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is
+ what Paolo has been working on lately).
+
+ The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the
+ .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b>
+
+ * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual
+ compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes.
+</ul>
+
+ At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will
+ replace our interpreter in production.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Nov 12, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has
+ got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit).
+
+ More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi.
+
+ Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Nov 8, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
+
+ Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Nov 5, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
+ tests running now.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Nov 4, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
+ update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
+
+ Ravi committed the initial support for Attributes in the
+ compiler.
+
+ Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS.
+
+ Paolo checked in his new System.Reflection and
+ System.Reflection.Emit implementations. He has been working
+ steadily on this huge task for a few weeks now. This is the
+ foundation for the Mono C# compiler, and hence a very
+ important piece of the puzzle.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Nov 3, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
+
+ Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed the flow analysis code
+ for the JITer.
+
+ A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4
+ new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes).
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Nov 1, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with
+ variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
+ the array handling support.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Oct 27, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed this
+ morning.
+
+ Some large recent developments:
+
+ The Decimal implementation from Martin Weindel has been
+ partially integrated (we need to put the internalcalls in
+ place now and compile and link the decimal code).
+
+ Derek Holden committed recently the IntegerFormatter code into
+ the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
+ engine that we can finally use all over the place.
+
+ Compiler got support for lock as well as assorted bug fixes.
+ Ravi is still working on array support (and then we can
+ optimize foreach for the array case).
+
+ Dietmar is busy working on flow analysis on the JITer, the
+ previous mechanism of generating the forest was wrong. Paolo
+ has been a busy bee reworking the System.Reflection.Emit
+ support code, and we should have some pretty nice stuff next
+ week. Dick on the other hand is still working on the
+ WaitOne/WaitAll emulation code. WaitAll is like select on
+ steroids: it can wait for different kinds of objects: files,
+ mutexes, events and a couple of others.
+
+ Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the
+ .defs files to quickly wrap the API.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Oct 18, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and
+ properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11
+ days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships.
+
+ Ximian users around the world <!--a
+ href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with
+ recent C# compiler progress.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Oct 17, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
+ (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Oct 15, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object
+ creation, vtable setup, interface table setup).
+
+ The C# compiler now has almost full property support (only
+ missing bit are pre-post increment/decrement operations),
+ delegates are now created (still missing delegate invocation).
+ try/catch/finally is also supported in the compiler now.
+
+ System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto
+ classes.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Oct 5, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b>
+ assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page:
+ <a
+ href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>.
+
+ The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This
+ component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop
+ eventually.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Oct 4, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Our System.Reflection.Emit implementation created its first
+ executable today. This means that a very simple .NET program
+ that was compiled on Windows was able to generate a .NET program
+ while running on Linux using the Mono runtime.
+
+ The various piece of the puzzle are starting to get together:
+ the compiler can compile simple programs now and we are
+ basically focusing on completeness now.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Sep 28, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ <a
+ href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
+ Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Sep 26, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ More progress: more opcodes are working (Paolo); The compiler
+ runs up to a point in Mint (Paolo); operator overloading works
+ (both unary and binary) all over the place (Miguel); Completed decimal
+ type conversions (Miguel); New build system in place based on
+ Ant (Sean and Sergey); Refactored and documented the
+ internals of the JIT engine (Dietmar); StatementExpressions
+ handled correctly (Miguel).
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Sep 21, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ A couple of news-worthy items: Dick got the initial thread
+ support into mint; Paolo implemented many new opcodes; Dietmar
+ got long operations and mul/div working on the JITer; Ravi rewrote
+ the Method selector for expressions to be conformant; Miguel
+ got i++ working. All in tonight's snapshot
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Sep 19, 2001
+
+<blockquote>
+ Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
+ Mono</a> to other architectures.
+</blockquote>
+
+@item Sep 18, 2001
+<blockquote>
<A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been
released (runtime engine, class libraries
and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono
0.7 announcement</a> for details
+</blockquote>
-** Sep 17, 2001
+@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>
-** Sep 10, 2001
+@item Sep 10, 2001
+<blockquote>
Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
+</blockquote>
-** Sep 5, 2001
+@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>
-** 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
will let you run it.
- Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
+ Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions,
performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
Good work Mono team!
+</blockquote>
-** Aug 23, 2001
+@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>
-** Aug 22, 2001
+@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>
-** Aug 20, 2001
+@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>
-** 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="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <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
presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly
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="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can
get the new class libraries from <a
href="download.html#july-22">here</a>
+</blockquote>
-** Jul 19, 2001
+@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>
-** Jul 17, 2001
+@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
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="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a
href="download.html#july-15">here</a>.
+</blockquote>
-** Jul 14, 2001
+@item Jul 14, 2001
+<blockquote>
A <a
- href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new
release</a> of the
runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a>
+</blockquote>
-** Jul 12, 2001
+@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>
-** Jul 9, 2001
+@item Jul 9, 2001
+<blockquote>
Project launched.
+</blockquote>
-** O'Reilly
+@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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