<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.
+ 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>
You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
You can contact the team at: <a
href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
+** Nov 16, 2001
+
+ 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.
+
+** Nov 14, 2001
+
+ Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a
+ href="http://mail.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.
+
+** Nov 12, 2001
+
+ 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.
+
+** Nov 8, 2001
+
+ Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now.
+
+ Full array support is not complete, but moving along.
+
+** Nov 5, 2001
+
+ Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
+ tests running now.
+
+** Nov 4, 2001
+
+ Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a
+ href="http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html">
+ update</a> on his work on Gtk#.
+
+ Ravi commited 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.
+
+** Nov 3, 2001
+
+ Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
+
+ Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited 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).
+
+** Nov 1, 2001
+
+ Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
+ variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
+ the array handling support.
+
+** Oct 27, 2001
+
+ Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited 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 commited 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.
+
+** Oct 18, 2001
+
+ 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.
+
+** Oct 17, 2001
+
+ Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
+ (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
+
+** Oct 15, 2001
+
+ 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.
+
+** Oct 5, 2001
+
+ 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.
+
+** Oct 4, 2001
+
+ 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.
+
+** Sep 28, 2001
+
+ <a
+ href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
+ Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
+
+** Sep 26, 2001
+
+ 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).
+
+** Sep 21, 2001
+
+ 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
+
+** Sep 19, 2001
+
+ Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
+ Mono</a> to othre architectures.
+
+** Sep 18, 2001
+
+ <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
+
+** Sep 17, 2001
+
+ 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.
+
+** Sep 10, 2001
+
+ Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
+ importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
+
+
+** Sep 5, 2001
+
+ 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)
+
+** Sep 4, 2001
+
+ Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
+ independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
+
+** Aug 28, 2001
+
+ <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
+ will let you run it.
+
+ Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
+ performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
+
+ Good work Mono team!
+
+** Aug 23, 2001
+
+ Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they
+ are available here: <a
+ href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a>
+
+** Aug 22, 2001
+
+ 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>.
+
+** Aug 20, 2001
+
+ 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>
+
** Aug 3, 2001
Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
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