X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Findex;h=ea3b70d63479485a924a1a224627130db42a6b03;hb=c25d8405e22b09f3a1927a3b5b63b9e7d5629eb4;hp=dea9f820532147414750b79ba56fa6a57f4ac350;hpb=2eab01e1c65bdd20530f7aef66545d14b466853f;p=mono.git diff --git a/doc/index b/doc/index index dea9f820532..ea3b70d6347 100644 --- a/doc/index +++ b/doc/index @@ -12,15 +12,14 @@ 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 @@ Working:
- Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM
- In progress:
- SPARC. + Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9
@@ -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