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>
<tr>
<td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td>
- <td>Webforms working<br></td>
+ <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<td>
<img src="images/netmagazine.png">
</td>
+ <td>
<a href="http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends/default.asp">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration.
</td>
</tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/infoworld.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/infoworld.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono?
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img src="images/b2.png">
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
+@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
+ authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients
+ (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET
+ runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The
+ new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits:
+ <ul>
+ <li> .asmx files.
+ <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
+ <li> ref and out parameters.
+ <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
+ <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
+ </ul>
+
+ For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a>
+
+ GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to
+ implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full
+ GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into
+ Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms.
+
+ MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version
+ coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative
+ extension to allow people to contribute documentation through
+ their web browsers.
+
+ Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS.
+ With this tool it is now possible to find which class library
+ code paths are missing regression tests. The module is
+ `monocov'. Details are <a
+ href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk#
+ version is available now.
+
+ Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing.
+
+@item Jun 26th: Mono 0.25 has been released.
+
+ We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is
+ available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>.
+
+ Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+ available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
+
+@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
+
+ Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web
+ services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a
+ web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to
+ compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL
+ compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his
+ experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator.
+
+ As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to
+ increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the
+ specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have
+ arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration
+ with SourceGear.
+
+ Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono
+ runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code
+ coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already
+ added improvements to it).
+
+ Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
+ migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take
+ advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS.
+
+ Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running
+ regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in
+ the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK.
+
+ On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer
+ checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps
+ and bounds.
+
+ Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top
+ of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later
+ for ease-of-authoring).
+
+ Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code
+ for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time.
+
+@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership
+
+ Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server
+ solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced
+ that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project
+ technology to offer cross-platform versions of its
+ products. In addition, the companies have entered into a
+ development partnership under which Ximian will provide
+ custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear
+ products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer
+ both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source
+ code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in
+ mixed-platform development organizations.
+
+ <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a>
+
+ Some technical details are available <a
+ href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>.
+
@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches.
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