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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
@@ -76,9 +68,7 @@
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Working:
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM
- In progress:
- SPARC.
+ Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
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@@ -151,6 +141,234 @@
+@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:
@@ -409,7 +627,7 @@
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