X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=web%2Findex;h=0b6e3482aab6e3f79a65d9c940dc893b4baf3045;hb=3e0677c9b1a525be1cf4ed44fa9fadcf43f6f13a;hp=2294b1f2850fc440d09d9a5758065449bc846b71;hpb=ca9e6be887ff068b953cd5075620a5781f4f8fed;p=mono.git diff --git a/web/index b/web/index index 2294b1f2850..0b6e3482aab 100644 --- a/web/index +++ b/web/index @@ -12,34 +12,31 @@ 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 snapshot of our current work, or browse + href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse the sources You might want to subscribe to our mono-list - and mono-announce-list + and mono-announce-list. There is also a forum at GotMono. - You can contact the team at: mono-list@ximian.com + Wikis: Gtk# Wiki + and Mono + Wiki - 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. @@ -71,11 +68,13 @@ + + + +
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+ + + May 31st, 2003: CLI integration. +
+ + + May 22nd, 2003: Mono 1.0 plans. +
+ + + Mar 14th, 2003: Whither Mono? +
+ + + Dec, 2002: The Penguin takes flight. +
+@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: + + + + 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: + + + 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 + + Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web + 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 work on his + experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator. + + As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to + increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the + specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have + arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration + with SourceGear. + + 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 improvements to it). + + 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. + + Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running + regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in + the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK. + + On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer + checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps + and bounds. + + Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top + of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later + for ease-of-authoring). + + Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code + for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time. + +@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership + + Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server + solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced + 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 + 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 + code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in + mixed-platform development organizations. + + Read more... + + Some technical details are available here. + +@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches. + + OpenLink announced + the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library + that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies + the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary + have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program. + The patches are available here. + + Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the download page. + +@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono + + Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the Eclipse IDE running on top + of Mono+IKVM. + + A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found here + +@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships + + We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code + generation engine. A list of the new features is available here. + + Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are + available on our download page. + We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time. + +@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships. + + OpenLink's released + their Virtuoso + 3.0 database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux. + On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and + ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release. + + Virtuoso can be downloaded here + and a demo is available here. + + OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on + an ongoing basis. + + Jon Udell wrote a small entry + +@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities. + + Atsushi has created a RelaxNG + validating XML reader. + + There is activity on the GotMono forums and the Gtk# Wiki + +@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages. + + The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently + only available in German, you can find it here + + We now have a page for the Mono Team + where we include a list of some of the people who have made + Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page + to include your information. + +@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine. + + The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the + details are here + + Zoltan has commited his typed + allocation patches to CVS as well. + +@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT# + + Gonzalo has checked in his Gtk#-based + NUnit tool. Screenshots are here + and here + + Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS, + module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the details + + The SWT port to C# using Gtk is progressing. Screenshots are + here. + +@item Mar 28th: Mono community site. + + www.gotmono.com has + openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site. + +@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey + + + + + +
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+ What do you think about Mono? + + Is your company involved with the development and + deployment of web applications? Is Linux becoming an + important part of your company's business application + strategy? Are you considering Mono for your next + project? Would you like to shape the future of Mono + and the use of Linux in business critical + applications? + + If you answered yes to any of these questions, we + would like to talk with you. If interested, please + email us at mbadgett@ximian.com. +
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+ +@item Mar 20th: Windows.Forms and Wine. + + Alexandre has provided a modified version of the GC system + that will work with and Mono. See the mono-winforms-list. It + is now possible to run our Win32-based implementation of + Windows.Forms with Mono on Linux. + +@item Mar 7th: Mono 0.23 + + A new freshly baked release of Mono is available. Release + notes are here. This is mostly a + bug fix release. No new features. + +@item Mar 5th, 2003: Mono 0.22; MonoDoc 0.2; Debugger 0.2.1: Release-o-Rama. + + Mono 0.22 has been released. See the release notes. This is a bug fix + release. + + A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser + has been released. + + Martin also announced a new + release of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line). + +@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga + + The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame + continues to show our appreciation to the excellent + contributors that make mono:: a successful free + software project. + + Zoltan has contributed significantly to Mono, with bug reports and bug + fixes as well as pushing the envelope of the things that can be done in + and with the mono runtime: the gcc-based ngen compiler, code coverage + and more recently his work with Reflection.Emit that got mono to the + point of running the IKVM Java virtual + machine. + +@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list. + + A new mailing list for Mono + Development has been created. + +@item Feb 27th, 2003: Mono 0.21 released + + Mono 0.21 has been released. This is only a bug fix release. + The release notes are available. + + Windows binary is available here + +@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released. + + Packages of Mono for Windows have been released. + Thanks to Daniel, Johannes and Paolo for setting this up. + + Daniel has released a new version of his Mono Apache module that + handles ASP.NET. The code is available at here + + Nick has posted an update on the progress on our regression + tests. We are looking for more tests, and more volunteers to write them. + + Also, remember to contribute to the Gtk# documentation effort, + momentum is picking up! See the entry for Feb 18th for more details. + +@item Feb, 23rd, 2003: Mono 0.20 released; Gtk# 0.8 released. + + Mono 0.20 has been released. Check out the release notes for an overview of + the changes. You can get it here. + There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes + and performance improvements. + + Gtk# 0.8 has been released + + Important: The contributed binaries for Windows + binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read this if you installed the binary. + +@item Feb 18th, 2003: Volunteers to document Gtk# + + With the availability of a documentation browser, we are + looking for volunteers to help us complete the documentation + of the Gtk# binding for Mono. + + Experience with Gtk is useful, but not mandatory. We have + checked in stubs, and we have instructions, and resources to + how to complete this process here. Mail the mono-docs-list@ximian.com + for further discussion. + @item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates. Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for @@ -751,1510 +1496,8 @@ himself in the lands of the C runtime. His work is invaluable for keeping Mono on the right track through the daily changes in the codebase. -@item Looking for volunteers - - We are looking for volunteers to help complete various pieces - of Mono and help move the project forward, we need - contributions to: - - - -@item July 31st, 2002: Flow Analysis - - Martin has checked into CVS the data flow analysis patch for - MCS, this means that we now correctly implement definite - assignment in the C# language. - -@item Jul 31st, 2002: Most ASP.NET controls render, Gtk# structs. - - Gonzalo posted - an update on the ASP.NET widgets that are still pending. Patrik is back, and he is - working with Gonzalo to streamline the pipeline - - Rachel quietly committed to Gtk-Sharp support for marshaling - structures (very important for Gtk#). This uses extensively - the new marshaling code that Dietmar added to the runtime. - - Dietmar is also now sharing more code for P/Invoke using his - intermediate representation. Another step to share more code, and - simplify the porting and maintenance process. - -@item Jul 27th, 2002: NGEN tool for Mono. - - Zoltan announced - the availability of his CIL to C compiler. This allows your Mono assemblies to be pre-compiled - and optimized by GCC in your platform, increasing the speed significantly of your code. - -@item Jul 26th, 2002: Mono 0.13 has been released. - - Mono 0.13 has been released! (details here). Get - your sources for the runtime and - compiler and class libraries. -

- Alp made Debian packages and they are here. Cristophe made - packages for Red Hat and they are here. - And Windows packages have been contributed - -@item Jul 23rd, 2002: Mono Verifier, System.Web.Services, ASP.NET samples. - - Mono now has a verifier. It is used by the runtime, or you can invoke it manually to - verify an image by using the `pedump' tool. - - Tim Coleman has started work on the System.Web.Services - assembly (you can also track the status here on the web page). - Contact him if you want to help in this assembly or with the - associated web service tools. - - Various samples for ASP.NET have landed in CVS. - -@item Jul 20th, 2002: Spanish Mono Tutorial. - - A Spanish tutorial on using Mono is here. - Also the FAQ - has been translated as well. - -@item Jul 19th, 2002: File handle redirection, Embeddable Mono and Mono Linux compilation. - - Dick's code for file handle redirection is complete and has - now landed on the CVS repository. - - The Mono runtime can now be embedded into your application - (also known as "CLR hosting"). See the sample in - mono/samples/embed. This allows your application to link with - the Mono runtime, then your C code can call into the C#/CIL - universe and back. - - Peter Williams and Martin contributed some Makefiles to - compile all of Mono on Linux. Details are here. - -@item Jul 17th, 2002 - - The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now - available online, from young director Erik Pukinskis: "Code - Monkey At Work". - - A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now online. - - More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are - now being rendered, as well as many of the sample programs - from www.asp.net. Gonzalo's work can be found on module XSP - (this implements the .aspx compiler). - - Sergey Chaban has got Gtk# working on Windows, you can see - some screenshots: sample apps and - running with a Russian charset. - -@item Jul 16th, 2002 - - Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This - means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C# - compiler and the Mono runtime. - - Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that - the compiler uses during the compilation process will come - from the source code it is compiling. - - After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all - the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles - to compile with the Mono tool-chain. - - A recapitulation: -

- - In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining - pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very - important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings. - - To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the - architecture specific code generation for trampolines - (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to - use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT - Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to - port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline - code is cross platform. - -@item Jul 9th, 2002 - - Ajay was the first to notice - Mono's first birthday. - - In a year, we have achieved plenty: - - - Thanks to everyone who has made Mono possible with their - feedback, regression tests, their comments, their help on the mailing - list, code contributions, complete classes, bug reporting, the - countless hours of bug hunting. This project would not have - been possible without every contribution. - - It has been a great year for everyone involved in the - project. I think we have built a new and exciting community. - - Now we have a solid foundation to build on, so this next year - looks even more exciting: not only because we will see more - Mono applications, but we will begin using Mono as an - `library' to be linked with applications that want to get - scripting-like features; Gtk# is our ticket to create nice - GNOME applications; And we will be developing CORBA bindings - to integrate with other object systems. - - Also, for those interested in optimizations and tuning, this - year we will get to play with more advanced optimizations and - all kinds of interesting research ideas for improving Mono - code generation. - - A special thanks to the Mono developers at Ximian for managing - to survive their manager and a special thanks to our - regression test marshal Nick Drochak, who has been hunting - down, and fixing code in our class libraries and keeping us on - track for so long. - -@item Jul 8th, 2002 - - Radek today fixed the last bugs to get Mono to self host on - Linux/PowerPC. - - Alp Toker has released version 0.5 of Phonic, a media - player for .NET. Phonic makes extensive use of Mono-developed - technologies such as Gtk# and csvorbis (Ogg player ported by - Mark). Hopefully we will be seeing many more exciting - applications like these in the near future. - - Dietmar has been moving a lot of the architecture specific - code in the JIT engine to our internal representation. This - means that porting the JIT is simpler now, as there is less - architecture-specific code to maintain. The inliner, constant - folder and constant propagation are also done at the - architecture independent layer. - - Gonzalo is now running the sample ASP.NET applications on - Linux with the Mono runtime. It still needs polishing though, - and help with the various ASP.NET controls would be - appreciated. The ASP.NET community seems more poor than the - PHP community, we need to have a few open source controls to - do things dynamic rendering (libart+gdk-pixbuf again can do - most of the work), charts and components like the kind of - thing you see in the PHP universe: to bring nice GPL code to - the masses of Windows developers, lure them into the world of - Linux. - - Dick has also got us the new Process implementation that - implements the Win32 semantics. Now only redirection is - missing. - -@item Jul 3rd, 2002 - - Listen to Paolo Molaro do a talk on Mono at the WebIT - conference in Padova, Italy this coming friday. Details are - here - - You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip: - here - - Miguel will be doing a couple of talks at the O'Reilly - conference about Mono: status update, progress and developing - applications with it. Details are here - and here - -@item Jun 30, 2002 - - Martin Baulig fixed the remaining bugs that prevented MCS to - compile our corlib. The compilation was tricky because of the way - MCS bootstraps the compile (internally mcs uses the types that are - being defined at that point to perform compares). - - Martin and Paolo have been working hard on fixing the - remaining issues. Currently 102 test pass and 15 fail with - our resulting corlib. - - Jesus' SoapFormatter classes are now in CVS. - - I have been redoing the type lookup system for MCS. The - interesting bit is that I did most of this work on an airplane - using MCS itself. Which is a good test that the compiler is - now a good development tool. - - Duncan, Mike and Rachel have been hard at work with Gtk#, now - there are bindings for the GtkHTML widget (the one used by - Evolution's composer). And Rachel also got the beginning of GNOME - bindings, that should simplify application development. - - A big thanks goes to Dennis Hayes for getting the - Windows.Forms work together, and committing so many stubs for Windows.Forms. - -@item Jun 25, 2002 - - I am updating the Mono site from the UNESCO offices in - Uruguay, the South-America trip - to promote free software is going very well. - - Many news in Mono-land this week so far: - - Mike Kestner got bindings for GtkHTML last night for Gtk#, - this is using GtkHTML 2.0. - - On Monday Piers Haken contributed - the core to support XPath in Mono: most of the w3c spec is - implemented (modulo a few pending bits). - - Dick checked in his implementation of the Process classes: - process forking and waiting support committed, with some functions to - query status. This was complex as we had to emulate the Win32 - environment, but this is another step to be fully compatible. - This means for example that any process can check on the - status of any other process (without the parent/child relationship) - - Of course, those interested - in only the Unix semantics can always P/Invoke the Unix calls. - -@item Jun 24, 2002 - - - Duncan has written a few sample Gtk# demo - applications (screen - shot, another) - - Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (screenshot). - She also got some documentation - up now. - -@item Jun 22, 2002 - - Mono's ASP.NET has rendered its first page on Linux for the - first time (Gonzalo and Paolo). - - Also, we are getting close to - self hosting. Paolo posted a list - of pending issues which are now very small. - - Steam is picking up in Gtk# as the bindings become more - complete and small applications are starting to emerge. Gtk# - now compiles completely on Linux. This uses a lot of the XML - libraries, which is nice to see. - -@item Jun 20, 2002 - - Gonzalo has got the Mono ASP.NET implementation can now render all Html - Controls, and 21 out of the 26 Web Controls. Session tracking is - next. Look in xsp/test for a collection of tests that render with Mono. - - Ajay has been very busy improving and extending the - XmlSerialization code. All fields had to be re-ordered to - match the Microsoft implementation. - -@item Jun 19, 2002 - - You can now download a fresh tarball of the libraries and the MCS - compiler daily from Alp Toker's - website. - - New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on Richard Torkar's site. - -@item Jun 10, 2002 - - Ajay announced - today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete. - -@item Jun 7, 2002 - - Mono 0.12 is out! More classes! More working code! - Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs! - - You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes). - -@item Jun 3rd, 2002 - - CodeDOM implementation from Daniel Stodden has got C# output support. - -@item May 31, 2002 - - Gonzalo got the Mono XSP page parser to render its first ASP.NET - .aspx file today without using MS System.Web.Hosting classes. - It is currently on its infancy. But very good news, now we need to - upgrade our System.Web runtime to run natively on Linux. - - Sergey's code for architecture and size-specific CPBLK has - been checked into CVS. - - Paolo has checked the configuration code for Mono (to map - PInvoke dlls to other libraries). - - ADO support: Daniel has checked in - a modified version of the MySQL data provider from Brad. And Rodrigo - started the OleDB using LibGDA. - -@item May 27, 2002 - - An RSS feed is now available for the - Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools - that process this data. - - Binaries for Windows are - now location independent, do not require Cygwin and come with a Wizard. - -@item May 26, 2002 - - Daniel Morgan checked in his Sql# Cli tool into the - System.Data class library. - -@item May 24, 2002 - - Ajay has - checked in a major update to the System.Xml.Schema namespace. - - Gonzalo moved XSP along this week: Added support for - templates, columns inside DataGrid, HTML comments, code render - and data binding tags, style properties in style tags, - ListItem inside list controls, float and double properties. - -@item May 22, 2002 - - MonoLogo runs - on the Mono runtime. This screenshot shows - MonoLogo running Gtk#. - -@item May 21, 2002 - - Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now - it is possible to get line - number information on stack traces. - -@item May 20, 2002 - - XSP our ASP.NET .aspx page parser is now - available on the AnonCVS servers. This is part of the ASP.NET - support in Mono. Gonzalo is the developer on charge of it. - - Many updates to the ADO.NET - implementation from Dan, Tim and Rodrigo. - - Radek got the Mono C# compiler running on Linux/PPC and - compiling most of our regression test suite. - - Lawrence has been working really hard in fixing, improving and - polishing the underlying network infrastructure. - - The Rafael and Chris have committed the beginning of the - VisualBasic.NET runtime support to CVS. - - Jesus has contributed the beginning of the SoapFormatter - -@item May 9, 2002 - - Linear register allocator has been deployed in the Mono JIT - engine. Read about - it - -@item May 5, 2002 - - We are able to retrieve simple data from the database - using our ADO.NET like functionality. Only string and integer data - types are supported right now but more are in the works. - - You can find more information - at The Mono ADO-NET Page - - Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim, - and others for these bits. - -@item May 4th, 2002 - - Rodrigo Moya announced new - LibGDA: LibGDA is an ADO-like library for Unix systems. - This one removes all the CORBA and GConf dependencies, which - should make it easier to use and compile. - - This is another milestone for our ADO.NET implementation plans - - We have a little surprise for everyone tracking the news on Tuesday ;-) - -@item May 2nd, 2002 - - Mark Crichton csvorbis port (C# port of Vorbis player) and - Richard Hestilow's MonoLogo compiler are now - on the CVS, and you can get them from AnonCVS. - - Dick implemented inter-process sharing of handles as well as - simplifying the implementation of WaitForMultipleObjects, now - we have a `handles' subsystem in Mono. This is needed to fully - emulate the handle behavior that Win32 exposes, and that the .NET API - expose to applications. - - News from the Gtk# front: Menu - support, Mike tells - the story - -@item May 1st, 2002 - - Daily packages for Debian are available - here - -@item Apr 26, 2002 - - Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for Windows - (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for - Linux (thanks - to BaseLabs). - -@item Apr 24, 2002 - - Mono 0.11 is out! Mostly performance improvements, bug - fixes and more classes are included. - - A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has - been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are - included. The Release Notes - are available. - - You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes). - -@item Apr 23, 2002 - - SharpDevelop 0.88a is out! - - Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for - their new release. - -@item Apr 20, 2002 - - Some updates from the hacking lines: - - The web: Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the - http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This - is part of the ASP.NET support. - - Docs: John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been - hacking on MonoDoc. - - ADO.NET: Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been - working on the ADO.NET support, and got - the first signs of life this week (we can connect, insert - rows; do transactions: commit/rollback; SQL errors and - exceptions work). Check mono-patches for all the - goodies. - - Optimizations: A number of optimizations in the runtime - made the compiler twice as fast this week: - - Early this week Patrik started the string - rewrite in the runtime. Today Dietmar finished the - constructors and deployed the new layout. - - Paolo got the JIT engine to generate profiles, which were in - turn used to find hot spots in Reflection, which he improved. - - Daniel Lewis (of Regex fame) noticed the performance issues - with our current array layout, and contributed a new array - representation. - - At the same time Dietmar started the the JIT inline code and - implemented constant propagation. These two optimizations - together are very powerful. - - Bug fixing: And of course everyone has been helping out - with the bug fixing (Duncan, Gonzalo, Jonathan, Miguel, Nick, - Ravi, Sergey) - - -@item Apr 18, 2002 - - Dietmar's inlining for the JIT engine just landed into - CVS. This is only a first cut and more improvements will come later. - - Patrik, Paolo, Dietmar and Gonzalo have been busy optimizing - our class libraries and runtime engine to become faster. Many changes - on CVS as well. - -@item Apr 11, 2002 - - Gtk# 0.1 "ButtonHook" has been released - - Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are available for - people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms. - -@item Apr 6, 2002 - - - Advanced .NET Remoting from Ingo Rammer is now available. Ingo - helped us to implement the proxy support and the book is a valuable - resource for anyone interested in remoting. - -@item Apr 5, 2002 - - Transparent proxy support has been finished, congrats to - Dietmar. Our JIT engine on CVS contains the implementation. - This should enable people to test the remoting framework on - Mono. - -@item Mar 28, 2002 - - Debugging information is now generated by the compiler thanks - to Martin's work. The resulting dwarf file can be used to - single step C# code in GDB. A document will be shortly published with - the details. - -@item Mar 27, 2002 - - Mono 0.10 is out! The self hosting release of Mono has - been released. - - A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has - been packaged for your download pleasure. Binaries are - included. The Release Notes - are available. - - You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes). - -@item Mar 26, 2002 - - Paolo finally fixed the last bug in the JITer that stopped - us from using it to run the Mono C# compiler. Goodies are on - CVS. - - Gtk# runs Hello - World. Mike posted some details. - - -@item Mar 19, 2002 - - Martin has been working on our debugging infrastructure, both - on the JIT side of things (adding dward support) as well as on - the class libraries (so that MCS can start generating - debugging information). - - Jason and Kral keep working on the System.Xml namespace, - allowing Mike to move more to self-hosting his Gtk# code. - - The System.Web classes are now part of the build (and they are - also part of the class status now). Ajay contributed a large - chunk of code to the System.Xml.Schema namespace - - Dan (of regex fame) has been working on internal calls - support: moving more code from the old monowrapper to become - internal calls. - - Paolo and Dietmar are working steadily on our runtime - environment, fixing bugs, adding missing features and allowing - us to run the compiler on Linux. - - Remember to post your bug reports. - - The nice class status on the right is brought to you by - endless hacking hours from Piers and Nick. These status - report pages have been helping us track down various mistakes - in our classes (very useful, check it out for yourself) - -@item Mar 12, 2002 - - At midnight, in Italy, Paolo got the Mono C# compiler to self - host on Linux, the last bug has been squashed to self - hostingness. We have now a fully self hosting compiler in Linux. - - A release will follow up shortly. - -@item Mar 9, 2002 - - Updated the class status, now - it is possible to use the right-side menu to browse a specific - assembly. - -@item Mar 7, 2002 - - MCS compiles on Linux! - - Today Paolo got the MCS - compiler compiling itself on Linux - completely for the first time! The resulting image still contains - some errors, but the whole compiler process goes now. Later in the day - and a couple of small optimizations and bug fixes, the compile - speed was improved in 400% - - We are very close to have a complete self hosting environment now. - - Mono is temporarily using the Bohem GC garbage collector while - we deploy the more advanced ORP one. - -@item Mar 5, 2002 - - The CVS repository can be browsed - - Jason has got an incredible amount of work on the Xml - classes during the weekend, and Gaurav is very close to have - the complete System.Web.UI.WebControls namespace implemented. - - Martin and Duco have been killing bugs by using the recently - revamped regression test suite. - - Piers has updated our class - status page again, with even more information available. - - The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi - killed bugs of bugs in the Mono Bug List - -@item Mar 1, 2002 - - RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at mono.baselabs.com - -@item Feb 28, 2002 - - Christophe - has setup his First Steps in Mono web site, which - shows you a step-by-step process on getting Mono running on your system. - - RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at mono.baselabs.org - -@item Feb 27, 2002 - - New class status engine that - provides detailed information about missing functionality in - our class libraries. Nick built the cormissing tool and Piers - did the XSLT and DHTML magic. - - More compiler progress on Linux: our support runtime now - enables the compiler to compile `MIS' on Linux (MIS being - Dick's Mono sample HTTP server ;-) - -@item Feb 26, 2002 - - Paolo posted a list of ways - you can help if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with - his - suggestions. - -@item Feb 25, 2002 - - StrongARM port from Sergey Chaban has been checked into CVS. - -@item Feb 24, 2002 - - SPARC: 44 out of 74 tests pass now (Jeff) - - Power PC: delegates are working now (Radek) - -@item Feb 22, 2002 - - Mono 0.9 has been released! - - A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has - been packaged for your download pleasure. The Release Notes - - You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes). - -@item 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. - -@item 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 available. 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. - -@item Feb 19, 2002 - - Do you want to see what Mono Looks Like? - -@item 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) - -@item 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 corlib 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 FOSDEM conference in Brussels. - -@item Feb 11, 2002 - - Mono 0.8 has been released! - - A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has - been packaged for your download pleasure. - - You can get it Here (quick links: runtime and compiler/classes) - -@item 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 GNOME - and Mono. - - 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 enabling - ASP.NET on Mono. - - Paolo also - posted a list of pending tasks to enable the compiler to run on Linux - -@item Feb 10, 2002 - - Mike Kestner has posted an Update - on his Gtk# activities. - -@item Feb 4, 2002 - - Adam has done Qt - bindings for .NET. Adam is cool. - -@item Jan 29, 2002 - - Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to - Mono: - System.Text.RegularExpressions. - - 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). - -@item Jan 28, 2002 - - The Mono contributors have relicensed the Class Libraries under - the terms of the - MIT X11 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 Press - Release - - Press coverage: CNet, Wired, - InfoWorld, - NewsForge. - -@item Jan 23, 2002 - - New mailing list: mono-patches@ximian.com. - 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. - -@item 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 - screenshot - - 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. - -@item 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. - -@item Jan 4, 2002 - - Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and - runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are - here - - Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to - compile fib.cs, patches are coming tomorrow once we have - ChangeLog entries. - -@item Jan 4, 2002 - - Mike Kestner posted an update on Gtk# New - year, new direction. - - Gtk# will be our foundation on which we will be implementing - System.Windows.Forms. - -@item 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 snapshot or getting your sources from our - Anonymous CVS server. - -@item 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! - -@item Dec 18, 2001 - - JIT: More work on our IO abstraction layer (Dick). - - JIT: exception handling for unmanaged code (Dietmar) - - System.Reflection: Support for PropertyInfo and - PropertyBuilder as well as the various queries for MethodBase. - - C#: Pre-processor; Rewrite of MemberLookup which fixed many of - the outstanding issues. More bug fixing allows it to compile - more programs. - -@item Dec 14, 2001 - - Dietmar has improved the register allocation and now Mono performs - two to three times as fast as it did yesterday. Amazing. - - The compiler keeps moving along, explicit interface - implementation is there. - -@item Dec 11, 2001 - - The JIT engine can now run all the compiler regression tests as - well as assorted other programs, many more opcodes added - recently. Currently the JIT engine uses a very simplistic register - allocator (just enough to allow us to focus on feature completeness) - and that will be the next major task to improve performance and - reduce spills and reloads. - - On the C# compiler front: language features are now pretty - much complete. The big missing tasks are unsafe code support, - visibility, explicit interface implementation plus static flow - analysis. There are many small bugs that need to be addressed. - - You can get your copy of the latest Mono - - More work is also required on fixing the foundation class - libraries, it is easy to find spots now since Nick got the - `make test' going. - -@item Dec 1, 2001 - - AnonCVS access to Mono is here (updated every hour). Thanks - to HispaLinux and Jesus - Climent for helping to set this up. - -@item Nov 30, 2001 - - All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now - (Dietmar). - - Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are - working now (Ravi). - - More work on the Web classes (Gaurav). - -@item Nov 28, 2001 - - JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while - Dietmar added exceptions support to it. - - The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the - switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many - new more tests. - - Nick keeps working on improving our class library test suite. - - Dick has almost completed the Mono IO layer. - -@item Nov 16, 2001 - -
- Mike Kestner has posted an update - on Gtk# development. -
- -@item Nov 14, 2001 - -
- Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running on - Linux. 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: - - - At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will - replace our interpreter in production. -
- -@item 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. -
- -@item 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. -
- -@item Nov 5, 2001 - -
- Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33 - tests running now. -
- -@item Nov 4, 2001 - -
- Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting - update on his work on Gtk#. - - Ravi committed 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. -
- -@item Nov 3, 2001 - -
- Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak. - - Mega patch from Dietmar: he committed 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). -
- -@item Nov 1, 2001 - -
- Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with - variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing - the array handling support. -
- -@item Oct 27, 2001 - -
- Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were committed 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 committed 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. -
- -@item Oct 18, 2001 - -
- Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and - properties. 11 - days until Evolution 1.0 ships. - - Ximian users around the world rejoice with - recent C# compiler progress. -
- -@item Oct 17, 2001 - -
- Delegate support has been checked into the compiler - (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented. -
- -@item 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. -
- -@item Oct 5, 2001 - -
- Sergey has released his first version of the ilasm - assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page: - http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua. - - The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This - component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop - eventually. -
- -@item 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. -
- -@item Sep 28, 2001 - -
- Sharp - Develop 0.80 was released today. -
- -@item 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). -
- -@item 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 -
- -@item Sep 19, 2001 - -
- Paolo has written a section on Porting - Mono to other architectures. -
- -@item Sep 18, 2001 - -
- Mono 0.7 has been - released (runtime engine, class libraries - and C# compiler). Check the Mono - 0.7 announcement for details -
- -@item 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 here - - Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set. -
- -@item Sep 10, 2001 - -
- Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most - importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar. -
- - -@item Sep 5, 2001 - -
- The MCS compiler can compile the sample Hello World - application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs! - - This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see - August 28) -
- -@item Sep 4, 2001 - -
- Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture - independent instruction selector for the JIT engine. -
- -@item Aug 28, 2001 - -
- .NET Hello World is working under Mono! The latest snapshots - will let you run it. - - Hello World consists of 1821 CIL instructions, - performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll - - Good work Mono team! -
- -@item Aug 23, 2001 - -
- Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they - are available here: http://csgl.sourceforge.net -
- -@item Aug 22, 2001 - -
- New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been - released. Check the 0.6 announcement. -
- -@item Aug 20, 2001 - -
- A new Compilation - service has been made available by Derek to allow people - without access to the .NET SDK -
- -@item Aug 3, 2001 - -
- Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will - run every night at 10pm Boston time. -
- -@item Jul 29, 2001 - -
- Mono Runtime 0.5 has been released. Check the release notes -
- -@item Jul 25, 2001 - -
- The slides for my - presentation at O'Reilly - Open Source Software Convention -
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- Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 22-July Release Notes. You can - get the new class libraries from here -
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- Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 19-July Release Notes. You can - get the new class libraries from here -
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- Another release of the class libraries is out, check the MCS 17-July Release Notes. You can - get the new class libraries from here - - Do not forget to check out the updated FAQ. - - Got Sean's new Class - Status web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and - we are now keeping better track of contributors. -
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- Another release of Mono is out, check the Mono 0.4 Release Notes. Get it here. -
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- A new - release of the - runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it here -
- -@item Jul 12, 2001 - -
- I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when - Mono has nothing to do with it. I finally wrote something. -
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