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Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a
set of class libraries. The
runtime can be embedded into your
- application.
-
- Mono has implementations of both ADO.NET
- and ASP.NET as part of its distribution.
+ application. It implements of both ADO.NET
+ and ASP.NET.
You can read our rationale for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
read our list of Frequently Asked
- Questions or contact us.
+ Questions or contact
+ us. The project roadmap.
You might also want to Download the
source for our work so far. Grab a forum at GotMono.
- You can contact the team at: mono-list@ximian.com
-
- In order to follow the process of the project and to learn more
- about the team members we have created the Mono Weekly News letter.
- Which archives can be found here.
- We have a Gtk# Wiki
- and a Mono Wiki
+ Wikis: Gtk# Wiki
+ and Mono
+ Wiki
@@ -76,14 +68,12 @@
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Working:
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM
- In progress:
- SPARC.
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
|
ASP.NET |
- Webforms working
|
+ Webforms and WebServices working
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-@item Jun 23rd, 2003: DiaCanvas#
+@item Dec 10th: Mono Debugger 0.5 released
+
+ Martin Baulig has released
+ a new version of the Mono Debugger.
+
+@item Dec 2nd: Mono 0.29 has been released
+
+ Check out the Release
+ notes for details on Mono 0.29.
+
+ This release includes the PPC JIT engine running `Hello World'
+ and ASP.NET is considered feature-complete.
+
+@item Nov 25th: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices
+
+ Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from the Gtk# web site.
+
+ Sunil has checked in the implementation of
+ System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap
+ code into Mono CVS.
+
+@item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released.
+
+ Mike Kestner has announced
+ the release of the Gtk#
+ GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono.
+
+@item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET
+
+ Sunil Kumar at Novell has announced
+ the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for
+ Mono and the .NET Framework.
+
+ You can obtain the library from Novell Forge's CSharpLDAP
+ module.
+
+@item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced.
+
+ The Mono Roadmap and Mono Hackers Roadmap have
+ been released.
+
+@item Oct 28th: Mono Get Together at the PDC. GTK# 0.12 Released.
+
+ We will be getting together at the West Tower Lobby on Tuesday
+ 28th at 6pm to talk about the Mono project. You have 24 hours to
+ notify all of your friends, open source buddies and free software
+ folks.
+
+ We will bring Mono t-shirts.
+
+ Mike Kestner released Gtk# 0.12 today. GTK# source tar balls
+ and RPMs are available. A windows installer was contributed by Johannes Roith.
+
+@item Oct 26th: Last Minute Mono BOF
+
+ The first in a series of undercover Mono BOFs at the PDC will take
+ place tonight at 7pm on the Academy meeting, in room 411. Come join us
+ to plot the evolution.
+
+
+@item Oct 25th: GTK# 0.11+ Windows Installer available
+
+ Johannes created a Windows Installer for GTK# 0.11+ and works
+ with Mono 0.28 for Windows.
+
+@item Oct 21st: Mono Community at Novell Forge
+
+ Mono Developers that are looking for a public repository for
+ hosting their projects can now use Novell Forge's which hosts
+ a Mono
+ Community.
+
+ Novell Forge offers mailing lists, cvs repository, bug
+ tracking and mailing list services and all the other services
+ you expect. Mono will continue to be hosted in our own CVS
+ repository, and using our anonymous CVS
+ servers
+
+@item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus
+
+ Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international
+ substrate in Mono that uses the International
+ Components for Unicode library from IBM. This means that
+ we got CultureInfo support through the whole code base now.
+
+ Alexandre Pigolkine has checked-in the new implementation of
+ System.Drawing. We have now dropped the old implementation
+ with multiple-backends that we had, and replaced it with an
+ implementation that P/Invokes into GDI+. A GDI+
+ implementation on top of Cairo is used on Unix
+ systems. This step vastly simplifies the development and
+ maintenance of System.Drawing.
+
+ There are plenty of updates to Mono as well, we encourage you
+ to read the Monologue to keep
+ an eye on recent developments.
+
+ Bernie Solomon just checked
+ in 64-bit support for SPARC v9 and HPPA into the Mono
+ runtime. This also improves the SPARC-32 support.
+
+@item Oct 6th: Linux s390 Mono packages available.
+
+ Neale Ferguson has contributed Mono packages for the
+ Linux/s390. You can get them from the download page.
+
+@item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs
+
+ You can now read an aggregated view of the blogs maintained by Mono developers in
+ Monologue.
+ Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an RSS feed.
+
+@item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7
+
+ Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our download page.
+
+ A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version
+ is available here
+
+@item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released.
+
+ Check out the Release
+ notes for details on Mono 0.28. This release marks the
+ completion of the SourceGear project to add web services
+ functionality to Mono and improve its reliability.
+
+@item Sep 30th: Mono Kick Start book available
+
+ The Mono Kick Start book is now available
+ in English. Originally available only in German.
+ The book technical review was done by Dietmar Maurer JIT
+ architect at the Mono team.
+
+@item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released.
+
+ Mike Kestner has released
+ a new version of Gtk#.
+
+ Martin has also
+ released
+ his binding to DiaCanvas for C#.
+
+@item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE.
+
+ WineLib: Vladimir has added new libraries to the Wine
+ process, which we will soon bring into our packages: the
+ various Windows common dialogs can now be used (screenshots:
+ here, here, here and here.
+
+ Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme,
+ screenshot here
+
+ Security: New authenticode support from Sebastien has
+ been checked into CVS.
+
+ Xslt: Plenty of conformance updates to the managed
+ implementation of Xslt, as well as breaking the libxslt speed
+ barrier. Our managed implementation is now faster than the
+ C-based libxslt that we used before.
+
+ Generics: Work continues on generics support, feel free
+ to try it out. The compiler is currently on a separate
+ directory until we stability it (gmcs) and you need to compile
+ the class libraries with the `generics' profile to try it
+ out. Sample generic programs are included in the CVS module.
+
+ Wsdl: We now have Wsdl support in Mono: a wsdl compiler
+ command line tool, and support on ASP.NET to generate the wsdl
+ file from an .asmx file.
+
+ AOT: Many robustness updates to the ahead-of-time
+ compiler and a new locking and threading system that avoids
+ having "big locks" around the mono kernel, and moves to a
+ fine-grained locking system. The design includes a lattice to
+ avoid deadlocks.
+
+ Dogfooding: We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on
+ go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our
+ Monodoc documentation. The Apache module
+ version and the XSP
+ version.
+
+ WSE: The Web Services Enhancements season has begun.
+ The Microsoft.Web.Services namespace and classes are now
+ checked into CVS.
+
+@item Sep 1st, 2003: Ice for Mono; XmlSerializer generators; Monodoc progress.
+
+ Ice: Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an
+ implementation of ZeroC's
+ ICE 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 list of
+ differences).
+
+ XmlSerializer: 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.
+
+ MonoDoc: New providers! Thanks to Jon Jagger 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:
+ Cairo support, Remoting.Corba
+ 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 Release
+ notes for details.
+
+@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up.
+
+ Brian Lloyd has announced
+ the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works
+ with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see
+ Brian's site at http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/
+
+ We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core
+ libraries and Gtk#) to http://mono.ximian.com:8080.
+ The site is running the ASP.NET edition of MonoDoc 0.6 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 WineSamples
+ page on the Mono Wiki.
+
+ 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 download page.
+
+@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 Novell acquired Ximian. The press release is
+ available here.
+
+ 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 Remoting.CORBA:
+ 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 Ben's
+ post
+
+@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots
+
+ MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software
+ are now available from our (download page). You can track the
+ progress on our Wiki
+ page.
+
+ We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in
+ three distinct flavors:
+
+
+ * 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.
+
+
+ The daily builds are availble here: http://go-mono.com/daily
+
+ 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 state
+ of WSDL 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 here
+
+ 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:
+
+ - .asmx files.
+
- Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot).
+
- ref and out parameters.
+
- Soap headers (In, Out and InOut).
+
- Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes).
+
+
+ For more details, see Lluis post
+
+ GUI-wise: Work on Xr 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 here. 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 here.
+
+ Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are
+ available on our download page.
@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks
@@ -159,7 +611,7 @@
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 his work on his
+ 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
@@ -171,9 +623,9 @@
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 imporvements to it).
+ added improvements to it).
- Mark Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly
+ 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.
@@ -199,7 +651,7 @@
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
@@ -1089,4 +1541,6 @@
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