Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The
runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your
- application.
-
- Mono has implementations of both <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a>
- and <a href="asp-net">ASP.NET</a> as part of its distribution.
+ application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a>
+ and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>.
You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a
href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>.
- You can contact the team at: <a
- href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
-
- In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
- about the team members we have created the <a
- href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/index.html">Mono Weekly News letter</a>.
- Which archives can be found <a
- href="http://monoevo.sf.net/mwn/archives.html">here</a>.
- We have a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
- and a <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono Wiki</a>
+ Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a>
+ and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono
+ Wiki</a>
</td>
<td>
</tr>
</table>
+@item Sep 3rd, 2003: Authenticode; WSE
+
+
+@item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
+
+ <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
+ implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a>
+ <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> protocol. It
+ is implemented using Remoting. If you were looking for an
+ efficient binary protocol to use with Remoting, this is it.
+
+ ICE is simpler to use than CORBA, and was created by people
+ who were deeply involved in CORBA and wanted to fix its
+ problems (you can see a <a
+ href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of
+ differences</a>).
+
+ <b>XmlSerializer</b>: Lluis has checked in a new technology
+ for use in our XmlSerializer: the XmlSerializer code
+ generator. Currently our XmlSerializer generates a
+ description of instructions for serializing data, these
+ instructions are later interpreted while using it: Reflection
+ is used to pull all the data. The code generator is the first
+ step into turning the Serializer from an intepreter into a
+ compiler and improving the performance of it.
+
+ Currently was used internally to implement the WSDL
+ serializer, in the future it will just be part of the standard
+ serialization process.
+
+ <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a
+ href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> for providing
+ us with his master XML files for the C# specification we now
+ have integrated the C# spec into Monodoc. Another provider is
+ the Error provider: now we include all the C# compiler errors
+ in the help system.
+
+ Alp has contributed various user interface improvement, and
+ updated our list widget for key navigation; Ben made the
+ matches window more useful and Joshua has helped us clean up
+ the ECMA provider even more.
+
+@item Aug 14th, 2003: Mono 0.26 has been released
+
+ A new version of Mono is available, the new features include:
+ <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a
+ href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a>
+ support, as well as a managed XSLT implementation.
+
+ Existing features have been improved vastly: better
+ Windows.Forms, runtime, faster compiler, web services, better
+ compliance to the spec and more.
+
+ Check out the <a
+ href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release
+ notes</a> for details.
+
+@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
+
+ Brian Lloyd has <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a>
+ the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
+ with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
+ Brian's site at <a href="
+ http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a>
+
+ We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
+ libraries and Gtk#) to <a
+ href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>.
+ The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a
+ href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> on XSP.
+
+@item Aug 6th, 2003: Winforms samples
+
+ Timothy Parez is coordinating the effort to create sample
+ programs that exercise the various Windows.Forms controls. We
+ are using this as graphical regression test suite for the Mono
+ implementation.
+
+ The screenshots of the various widgets, together with the
+ source code is available on the <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a>
+ page on the <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>.
+
+ A new cvs module called `winforms' has been created that
+ contains the source code for the samples. To run the samples,
+ you can install the WineLib packages available from our <a
+ href="download.html">download page</a>.
+
+@item Aug 5th, 2003: New Apache Module architecture: 1.3 and 2.x supported
+
+ Gonzalo rearchitected our Apache module for hosting Mono and
+ ASP.NET. The previous incarnation hosted a Mono runtime on
+ each Apache process, which lead to a slow setup for webforms.
+ The new setup uses a shared mono process for all the incoming
+ requests. Daniel later improved up the new architecture and
+ added dual support, so now in addition to Apache 2.x, we
+ support Apache 1.3 with the same codebase.
+
+ The new code is available on CVS, on module `mod_mono', and
+ now requires an XSP installation to be available.
+
+@item Aug 4th, 2003: Ximian acquired by Novell.
+
+ Today <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is
+ available <a
+ href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>.
+
+ Mono and Gnome form an integral part of the Novell strategy.
+
+@item Jul 30th, 2003: Remoting.CORBA, Managed XSLT.
+
+ Today Lluis announced that Mono CVS contains all the fixes to
+ run <a
+ href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>:
+ both client and server channels work; We are interested in people
+ testing it with other ORBs.
+
+ Ben checked-in today his managed implementation of Xslt that
+ we mentioned on Jul 19th; This uncovered various limitations
+ on the XPath implementation, which Piers has swifly removed.
+ Monodoc, NUnit and our Corcompare work with it. Since this is
+ implementation is not completed yet, we still support the
+ libxslt-based version by default. For more details on how to
+ try the new XSLT implementation, see <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's
+ post</a>
+
+@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
+
+ MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
+ are now available from our (<a
+ href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the
+ progress on our <a
+ href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki
+ page.</a>
+
+ We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
+ three distinct flavors:
+
+ <ul>
+ * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and
+ contain everything necessary to setup a new
+ installation from scratch. This includes the Mono
+ runtime and all the assemblies we distribute.
+
+ * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only
+ the assemblies built on that day.
+
+ * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of
+ 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and
+ 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to
+ re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation.
+ </ul>
+
+ The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a>
+
+ If you find that the builds are broken, please notify Duncan.
+
+@item Jul 19th, 2003: Recent developments
+
+ Since Mono has matured, we have limited the news on the site
+ to major accomplishments that are finished, but this week, it
+ is worth devoting some time to talk about some of the
+ work-in-progress projects that are progressing.
+
+ Jackson has added support to the IL assembler for generics as
+ well as to the PEAPI library, and it has assembled its first
+ generic program. Support for handling images with generics
+ has been on our file format reader for a while, but the JIT
+ engine is still incomplete.
+
+ On the XSLT world, Atsushi and Ben continue to make big
+ improvements. Ben recently got the prototype managed XSLT
+ implementation to run its first stylesheet. Although
+ currently Mono uses libxslt to implement the System.Xml.Xsl
+ namespace, to have a fully .NET compliant implementation we
+ will need a managed version, and this is the beginning of it.
+
+ Lluis recently posted an update on the <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state
+ of WSDL</a> in Mono. Now that the web services runtime is
+ ready, the WSDL compiler becomes more important as a
+ development tool.
+
+ Atsushi continues his work on the DTD validating reader in
+ System.Xml, as well as improving our XML Schema support.
+
+@item Jul 14th, 2003: New build system; IPV6 support.
+
+ Peter Williams has contributed a new build system that
+ addresses many of the annoyance we had with our previous build
+ system. He has worked on this for a few weeks, and Gonzalo
+ helped test it and get it into CVS. We no longer have the
+ historical dual build system: make for Unix and nant for
+ Windows.
+
+ This system also offers the opportunity to compile our class
+ libraries with different profiles (.NET 1.0, .NET 1.1 and the
+ various ECMA subsets).
+
+ Peter explains the new build system <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a>
+
+ Jerome's IPV6 code has been checked into CVS; With Peter's new
+ build system, we will be able to expose it (as part of the
+ NET_1_1 build).
+
@item Jul 9th, 2003: ASP.NET web services, coverage tools.
Web Services keep advancing: now we also support server-side
that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
- development partnership under which Ximian® will provide
+ development partnership under which Ximian will provide
custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
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