+<table>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work.
You might want to <a
- href="resources.html#mailing">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
+ href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
and mono-announce-list
You can contact the team at: <a
href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <table border=1 bgcolor>
+ <tr>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="c-sharp.html">Compiler</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Self hosting on .NET.<br>
+ Classes need work to run on Mono.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>JIT</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Linux/x86 working.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b>Interpreter</b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Linux/PPC working<br>
+ In progress: StrongARM, SPARC.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b>
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ Corlib for self hosting mostly done
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+** 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.
+
+** Feb 25, 2002
+
+ StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS.
+
+** Feb 24, 2002
+
+ SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff)
+
+ Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek)
+
+** 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>).
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** Feb 19, 2002
+
+ Do you want to see what <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a>
+
+** 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)
+
+** Feb 13, 2002
+
+ Excellent news since the 11th, here is a quick rundown:
+
+ AppDomains have been deployed (Dietmar). Socket work is done
+ (Dick). Corlib compiled with no refs to mscorlib (Dan). New
+ comprehensive tests for colib bits (David). Nick is driving the
+ regression test suite efforts and class library completeness.
+ New System.Data work (Chris). Bug fixes (Paolo, Duncan, Ravi, Miguel)
+
+ Miguel is off to the <a
+ href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels.
+
+** 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>)
+
+** 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
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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).
+
+** 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>.
+
+** 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.
+
+** Jan 21, 2002
+
+ Dick has got a simple web server running with Mono (`MIS: Mono
+ Internet Server') that is mostly used to test our IO layer, a
+ <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a>
+
+ Paolo and Dietmar are busy making our runtime self sufficient on
+ non-Windows platforms.
+
+ C# compiler front: A lot of focus in the past weeks after
+ the C# became self hosting has been in making the compiler a useful
+ tool for development: improve error handling, provide better error
+ reports, fixing all known bugs, and finally profiling of the compiler
+ has begun.
+
+** Jan 8, 2002
+
+ 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.
+
+** 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 comming tomorrow once we have
+ ChangeLog entries.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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>.
+
+** 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!
** Dec 18, 2001
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