</tr>
</table>
-@item Jul 15th, 2002
+ Mono at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (<a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>)
+
+@item Jul 17th, 2002
+
+ 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: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
+ <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
+
+@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:
+ <ul>
+ * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
+ The resulting image contained errors though.
+
+ * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
+ January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
- More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are now being rendered.
+ * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
+ was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
+ This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
+
+ * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
+ run the compiler on Linux.
+
+ * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
+ compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
+
+ * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
+ the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
+ various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
+
+ * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
+ and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
+ </ul>
+
+ 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 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:
+
+ <ul>
+ * More tests to the existing class libraries.
+
+ * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
+ href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
+ all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
+ the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
+ configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
+
+ * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
+ create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
+ library documentation.
+
+ We have some special needs (read them <a
+ href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
+ prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
+ it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
+ it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
+
+ * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
+ to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
+ applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
+ Mono.
+
+ * We need people to help write the documentation: you
+ can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
+ have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
+ </ul>
@item Jul 9th, 2002
</tr>
</table>
-@item Jul 15th, 2002
+ Mono at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (<a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2994">here</a>
+ and <a
+ href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2996">here</a>)
+
+@item Jul 17th, 2002
+
+ 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: <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-1.jpg">sample apps</a> and
+ <a href="sshots/Gtksharp-2.jpg">running with a russian charset</a>.
+
+@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:
+ <ul>
+ * The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2001.
+ The resulting image contained errors though.
+
+ * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on
+ January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows.
- More progress on the ASP.NET front: user defined controls are now being rendered.
+ * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it
+ was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter.
+ This means that our development tool was self sufficient.
+
+ * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to
+ run the compiler on Linux.
+
+ * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from
+ compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though.
+
+ * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap
+ the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed
+ various tricky issues in a big-endian system.
+
+ * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries
+ and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete.
+ </ul>
+
+ 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 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:
+
+ <ul>
+ * More tests to the existing class libraries.
+
+ * Finish existing class libraries, check our <a
+ href="class-status.html">class status</a> pages to see
+ all the missing things. There are open tasks all over
+ the place: XML, Database access, enterprise services,
+ configuration, ASP.NET, Drawing APIs, and more.
+
+ * Since we have now ASP.NET running, we would like to
+ create an ASP.NET application to maintain our class
+ library documentation.
+
+ We have some special needs (read them <a
+ href="classlib-doc.html">here</a>). There is a
+ prototype written using Windows.Forms, but we believe
+ it will be faster to have this done using ASP.NET (and
+ it is also a nice way of stress testing it).
+
+ * Support for the VB runtime: we need contributions
+ to make our VB runtime mature enough to host
+ applications compiled with the VB.NET to run with
+ Mono.
+
+ * We need people to help write the documentation: you
+ can start editing our XML files by hand, and once we
+ have the ASP.NET tool, upgrade to that.
+ </ul>
@item Jul 9th, 2002
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