-Hello everyone!
+Release notes for Mono are hosted on the web, please see:
- We have made a new release of Mono available. Despite the fact
-that we just did Mono 0.18, this release is packed with new features.
-
-* Availability.
-
- Mono 0.19 is available in package format from:
-
- http://www.go-mono.com/download.html
-
- We released packages for SuSE 8.0, Mandrake 8.2, Debian and various
-Red Hat releases. It is also available from Red Carpet on the Mono
-channel.
-
- Source code for Mono, MCS, the Mono Debugger, XSP is available as
-well from that web page.
-
-* New in this release
-
- * Remoting news:
-
- Lluis has implemented and documented the Binary formatter
- Woohoo! He has done a lot of work as well to support
- remoting.
-
- Patrik has also been working heavily on fixing a
- number of remoting related bugs and missing features.
-
- Ajay also implemented 1-d array serialization in System.Xml
-
- * New database provider: IBM DB2
-
- Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 data
- provider for System.Data. We have a very complete
- range of data providers.
-
- * System.Web.Mobile
-
- Gaurav has started work on this assembly, this will
- allow us to run the unmodified reference ASP.NET
- applications that were designed to support Mobile
- browsing.
-
- * System.Data and System.XML:
-
- More implementation work on XmlDataDocument from Ville
- and plenty of fixes from Atsushi.
-
- * MacOS patches:
-
- Paolo integrated John Duncan's and Benjamin Reed
- patches to make Mono run on MacOS X out of the box.
-
- * IsolatedStorage
-
- The initial implementation of it was done by Jonathan
- Pryor and included in this release.
-
- * Compilers:
-
- More work on the Mono Visual Basic compiler (it is now
- included in the packages).
-
- Plenty of bug fixes from Jackson, Miguel to the C#
- compiler.
-
- Patches from Francesco and Daniel to the VB.NET
- support runtime.
-
- * Debugger support
-
- Plenty of updates to run the new Mono Debugger from Martin.
-
-* Main missing bits:
-
- Some of everyone's favorite patches or code chunks have not yet
-been integrated, hopefully Mono 0.20 will have them:
-
- * Zoltan's patch to run IKVM is not yet on this release
-
- * Some parts of Patrik's remoting code did not make it to the
- release either.
-
- * Reggie's MySQL native provider is also missing.
-
-Enjoy!
-Miguel.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Happy new year!
-
- The Mono team is proud to release Mono 0.18, with plenty of bug
- fixes and improvements. If you are a happy 0.17 user, this
- release is a happiness extension release. Many bugs in the
- runtime, class libraries and C# compiler have been fixed.
-
- Also, our special envoy in Japan has reported that there is
- some naming confussion about the naming of Mono, as can be
- seen in the following documentary material:
-
- Atsushi Enomoto shows the source of confussion:
-
- http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/gallery/Duncan-in-Tokyo/DSCN0702
-
- Nick and Duncan echo it:
-
- http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/gallery/Duncan-in-Tokyo/DSCN0703
-
-* Availability
-
- Mono 0.18 packages and source code is available for download from:
-
- http://www.go-mono.com/download.html
-
- Those using Red Carpet on Linux can install Mono 0.18 from
- the Mono channel. The packages have already been pushed for
- you.
-
- At release time we have packages for Red Hat 8.0, 7.3,
- 7.2 and 7.1 and Mandrake 8.2.
-
-* Contributors to this release
-
- This release is brought to you by:
-
- Alejandro Sanchez, Alp Toker, Atsushi Enomoto, Cesar Octavio
- Lopez Netaren, Daniel Lopez (mod_mono), Daniel Morgan, Dennis
- Hayes, Dick Porter, Dietmar Maurer, Duncan Mak, Eduardo
- Garcia, Gaurav Vaish, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson Harper, Jaime
- Anguiano, Jeroen Janssen, Johannes Roith, Jonathan Pryor, Juli
- Mallett, Lluis Sanchez, Marco Ridoni, Martin Baulig, Miguel de
- Icaza, Nick Drochak, Paolo Molaro, Patrik Torstensson, Piers
- Haken, Rachel Hestilow, Rafael Teixeira, Ravi Pratap,
- Sebastian Pouliot, Tim Coleman, Tim Hayes, Ville Palo, Zoltan
- Varga.
-
-* New in this release
-
- VB.NET compiler:
-
- Many improvements to the Mono VB.NET compiler.
-
- ASP.NET:
-
- Plenty of bug fixes in ASP.NET. Larger applications
- can now be run with it. The authentication system has
- been deployed, most changes are from Gonzalo.
-
- We have a modified IBuySpy running (without Xslt)
-
- If you want to run ASP.NET you can run it with either
- our XSP proof-of-concept server, or with Daniel's
- Apache module that can be fetched from CVS (module
- name: mod_apache)
-
- Type Reflector:
-
- A Console, Gtk# and Windows.Forms tool to browse
- compiled assemblies and examine the types on it, from
- Jonathan Pryor.
-
- Moving to NUnit 2.0
-
- Nick continues the work on moving our test suite to NUnit 2.0
-
- Mobile.Controls:
-
- Gaurav has started work on the Mobile controls, which
- are required to run some of the reference applications
- in full-mode like IBuySpy.
-
- Remoting:
-
- The remoting infrastructure has got a big boost from
- Lluis in this release.
-
- System.Data/XML
-
- Ville has been working on improving our System.Data
- classes in the XML assembly.
-
- Crypto:
-
- Plenty of new crypto from Sebastien as well. A new
- web page in our site can be used to track this.
-
- http://www.go-mono.com/crypto.html
-
-
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-Hello!
-
- Version 0.17 of Mono has been released.
-
- There are plenty of new features, bug fixes, new classes,
- performance improvements, optimizations and much more
- available in this release.
-
-* Stats
-
- 2605 cvs commits to the Mono repository since October 1st, an
- average of 37 commits per day including weekends.
-
- 212 commits to the Mono module.
- 1438 commits to the MCS module.
-
-* Mono Improvements:
-
- Work has begun to make the runtime run a finalizer thread and
- invoke all the finalizers from this thread. This is the same
- behavior as Java and the Microsoft runtime, but it is disabled
- on this build.
-
- Integrated the s390 work from Neale Ferguson.
-
- Beginning of the work for pre-compiling code (Ahead of time
- compilation) for Mono (based on the early work of Zoltan).
-
- New option `--noboundscheck' for benchmark purposes, it
- disables array bound checks.
-
- Uses mmap instead of SysV shared memory for the Windows API
- emulation layer.
-
- Plenty of bug fixes, improvements and integration with the
- upper layer class libraries.
-
- New exception handling code uses the GCC native support for
- stack-walking if available and gives big performance boost
- (15% on mcs bootstrap).
-
- A lot of the work in the new release of Mono is required for
- the Mono Debugger (which will be released separately). The
- Mono debugger is interesting, because it can debug both
- managed and unmanaged applications, but it only supports the
- JITer for debugging.
-
- Dick, Dietmar, Gonzalo, Martin and Paolo were in charge of
- most of these changes.
-
-* Compiler improvements:
-
- Many bug fixes as usual, better C# compliancy.
-
- Performance improvements. The new release of the Mono C#
- compiler is 37% faster than the previous version (self-compile
- is down to 8 seconds). On my P4 1.8Ghz machine, the Mono C#
- compiler compiles (342,000 lines per minute).
-
- Thanks to go Ravi and Martin for helping out with the bug
- fixing hunt.
-
-* Cryptography and Security classes
-
- Sebastien Pouliot and Andrew Birkett were extremely busy
- during the past two months working on the cryptography
- classes, many of the crypto providers are now working
-
- Jackson on the other hand helped us with the security
- classes, he said about those:
-
- `Writing security classes is the most exciting thing I have
- ever done, I can not wait to write more of them'.
-
-* ASP.NET:
-
- We have now moved the code from the XSP server (which was our
- test bed for ASP.NET) into the right classes inside
- System.Web, and now any web server that was built by using the
- System.Web hosting interfaces can be used with Mono.
-
- The sample XSP server still exists, but it is now just a
- simple implementation of the WorkerRequest and ApplicationHost
- classes and can be used to test drive ASP.NET. A big thanks
- goes to Gonzalo who worked on this night and day (mostly
- night).
-
- Gaurav keeps helping us with the Web.Design classes, and
- improving the existing web controls.
-
-* ADO.NET:
-
- New providers are available in this release. The relentless
- System.Data team (Brian, Dan, Rodrigo, Tim and Ville) are
- hacking non-stop on the databse code. Improving existing
- providers, and new providers.
-
- The new providers on this release:
-
- * Oracle
- * MS SQL
- * ODBC
- * Sybase
- * Sqlite (for embedded use).
-
- Many regression tests have been added as well (Ville has been
- doing a great job here).
-
- Brian also created a DB provider multiplexor (The ProviderFactory)
-
- Stuart Caborn contributed Writing XML from a DataSet.
- Luis Fernandez contributed constraint handling code.
-
- Also there is new a Gtk# GUI tool from Dan that can be used to
- try out various providers.
-
-* System.XML:
-
- Atsushi has taken the lead in fixing and plugging the missing
- parts of the System.XML namespace, many fixes, many
- improvements.
-
-* CodeDom and the C# provider.
-
- Jackson Harper has been helping us with the various interface
- classes from the CodeDOM to the C# compiler, in this release
- a new assembly joins us: Cscompmgd. It is a simple assembly,
- and hence Microsoft decided not to waste an entire "System"
- "dot" on it.
-
-* Testing
-
- Nick Drochak has integrated the new NUnit 2.0 system.
-
-* Monograph:
-
- Monograph now has a --stats option to get statistics on
- assembly code.
-
-
-CVS Contributors to this release:
-
- Alejandro Sanchez, Alp Toker, Andrew Birkett, Atsushi Enomoto,
- Brian Ritchie, Cesar Octavio Lopez Nataren, Chris Toshok,
- Daniel Morgan, Daniel Stodden, Dennis Hayes, Dick Porter,
- Diego Sevilla, Dietmar Maurer, Duncan Mak, Eduardo Garcia,
- Ettore Perazzoli, Gaurav Vaish, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson
- Harper, Jaime Anguiano, Johannes Roith, John Sohn, Jonathan
- Pryor, Kristian Rietveld, Mads Pultz, Mark Crichton, Martin
- Baulig, Martin Willemoes Hansen, Miguel de Icaza, Mike
- Kestner, Nick Drochak, Nick Zigarovich, Paolo Molaro, Patrik
- Torstensson, Phillip Pearson, Piers Haken, Rachel Hestilow,
- Radek Doulik, Rafael Teixeira, Ravi Pratap, Rodrigo Moya,
- Sebastien Pouliot, Tim Coleman, Tim Haynes, Ville Palo,
- Vladimir Vukicevic, and Zoltan Varga.
-
- (Am sorry, I could not track everyone from the ChangeLog
- messages, I apologize in advance for the missing
- contributors).
-
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-Hello!
-
- Version 0.16 of Mono has been released! This is mostly a bug
- fix release, a lot of work has been going on to make existing
- features more robust and less buggy. Also, contributions are
- too varied, so it is hard to classify them in groups.
-
-* Stats
-
- 795 commits to mono and mcs since August 23rd.
-
-* News
-
- The changes that got in this releases are mostly
- bugfixes. Miguel, Martin and Ravi attacked lots of bugs in the
- compiler, Dick fixed a bunch of bugs related to processes and
- threads. Mark Crichton resumed his work on the SPARC port and
- made lots of progress there. Juli Mallett has been working on
- making sure Mono also builds on BSD systems. As usual, Dietmar
- and Paolo supplied their continuous stream of fixes to the
- runtime.
-
- Dietmar has completed the work on the runtime side for
- remoting support and we ship now with a sample channel, the
- System.Runtime.Remoting.Sample. This can be used as a
- reference implementation for anyone interested in implementing
- other channels (like a CORBA channel).
-
- Duncan got preliminary XSLT support done by using
- libxslt.
-
- Gonzalo (with some help from Patrik) has been working hard
- making our ASP.NET implementation work on both Mono and MS by
- migrating the existing xsp code to the class library. Gaurav
- started working on the classes in System.Design.dll and Chris
- Toshok checked in Mono.Directory.LDAP, which will be the
- foundation to implement the System.DirectoryServices assembly.
-
- Various fixes from Kral, Jason, Piers and Gonzalo were
- committed to System.Xml; Martin Algiers reports that the
- upcoming NAnt release will be fully compatible with Mono.
-
- Miguel imported Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ilasm code
- to CVS. Nick, as always, continues to refine our testing
- framework by improving our tests. Andrew Birkett continues to
- improve the implementation of our security/cryptographic
- classes. Jonathan Pryor contributed type-reflector the our
- list of tools.
-
-* Other News From Behind de Curtain.
-
- While the above is pretty impressive on its own, various other
- non-released portions of Mono have been undergoing: Adam Treat
- has been leading the effort to document our class libraries
- and produce the tools required for it.
-
- Martin Baulig has been working on the Mono Debugger which is
- not being released yet. This debugger allows both native
- Linux application as well as CIL applications to be debugged
- at the same time (and in fact, you can use this to debug the
- JIT engine). The debugger is written in C# with some C glue
-
- In the meant A new JIT engine is under development, focused on
- adding more of the high-end optimizations which will be
- integrated on an ahead-of-time-compiler. Dietmar and Paolo
- have been working on this.
-
-* Contributors to this release
-
- * Non-Ximian developers: Adam Treat, Andrew Birkett, Dennis
- Hayes, Diego Sevilla, Franklin Wise, Gaurav Vaish ,Jason
- Diamond, Johannes Roith, John Sohn, Jonathan Pryor, Juli
- Mallett, Kral Ferch, Mike Crichton, Nick Drochak, Nick
- Zigarovich, Piers Haken, Rafael Teixeira, Ricardo Fernandez
- Pascual, Sergey Chaban, Tim Coleman.
-
- * Ximian developers: Dietmar, Paolo, Dick, Duncan, Ravi,
- Miguel, Martin, Chris, Joe, Gonzalo, Rodrigo.
-
-
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Sergey Chaban added thread-safe support to
- System.Collections.SortedList.
-
- * Fixes to the compiler by Andrew Birkett.
-
- * Tim Coleman contributed the OleDb provider for System.Data and started
- work on System.Web.Services.
-
- * Radek fixed a lot of problems on the PPC side. [*]
-
- * Miguel and Martin committed the new type lookup system.
-
- * Dietmar rewrote the marshalling code. [*]
-
- * Peter Williams and Martin contributed the new Makefiles, with help
- from Alp Toker as well.
-
-* Contributors to this release:
-
- * Non-Ximian developers: Nick Drochak, Martin Baulig, Tim
- Coleman, Mike Kestner, Alp Toker, Jonathan Pryor, Jaime
- Anguiano, Piers Haken, Rafael Teixeira, Mark Crichton,
- Sergey Chabon, Ajay Kumar Dwivedi, Andrew Birkett, Dennis
- Hayes (SWF), Adam Treat, Johannes Roith and Lawrence Pit.
-
- * Ximian developers: Duncan, Ravi, Dick, Dietmar, Paolo,
- Gonzalo, Rachel, Radek, Rodrigo, Jeff, Peter Williams and
- Miguel.
-
-Special thanks to Duncan for helping me put this release together.
-
-Hello!
-
- A new version of Mono (0.12), is out.
-
- Mono is an open source implementation of the Microsoft.NET
- Framework, and ships with a C# compiler, a runtime engine
- (with a JIT on x86 cpus) and a set of class libraries.
-
- Mono is know to work on a number of platforms:
- x86/Linux, x86/Windows, x86/FreeBSD; sparc/solaris;
- linuxppc/linux; strongarm/linux.
-
- There have been many changes since the last release of Mono in
- late April, thanks to Duncan for assembling the list of new
- features, any omissions are my fault.
-
-Changes since 0.11:
-
- It is hard to keep track of the changes, as there are 1632
- patches that were posted to the mailing list. One third of
- the total number of patches since we opened mono-patches
- list. I am sure I missed some stuff and probably missed some
- contributors. I apologize in advance.
-
- Runtime:
-
- Paolo: New Reflection.Emit generation code generates
- code that can be executed in Windows. Now binaries
- generated by Mono/MCS will run on Windows.
-
- Paolo got Activator.CreateInstance to work.
-
- Sergey's CPU-optimization for CPBLK.
-
- Many many bug fixes to the runtime from Dick, Dan
- Lewis, Dietmar, Gonzalo, Martin, Paolo, Radek and Sergey,
-
- Compiler:
-
- Many bug fixes: The compiler can now compile Gtk#,
- Vorbis#, System.Data assembly and System.Xml assembly
- which previously did not work (Dietmar, Miguel, Paolo,
- Piers, Ravi, Miguel). Thanks to all the bug
- reporters.
-
- Class Libraries:
-
- Mike started work on System.Xml.XPath
-
- Christian, Dennis, Daniel and friends got more stubs
- for System.Windows.Forms in.
-
- Ajay revamped System.Xml.Schema. And Jason and Duncan
- updated System.Xml
-
- Daniel also checked in a working CodeDOM
- implementation and a C# provider.
-
- Many bug fixes by everyone. Thanks to Daniel, Duncan,
- Jonathan, Lawrence, Martin Mike, Nick and Piers. I am
- missing a lot of contributors that should be listed.
-
- ASP.NET support
-
- A lot of work from Gonzalo allows some small and
- modest ASP.NET applications to run (you still need the
- unreleased XSP code though).
-
- System.Data:
-
- Integrated the MySQL provider from Brad Merryl.
-
- Lots of work by Dan, Rodrigo, Tim.
-
- Microsoft.VisualBasic runtime support
-
- Rafael and Chris have been working on the VisualBasic
- runtime support DLLs
-
-Hello everyone!
-
- Mono 0.11 is out!
-
- This new version has new features:
-
- * Massive:
-
- * Ultrich Kunitz implemented the whole calendar set of
- classes. Yes, thats right. The whole thing, with a
- complete test suite. Thanks Ultrich!
-
- * JIT/runtime features:
-
- * Martin's debugging framework is included (see web
- site for details on how to use it). (Martin)
-
- * Transparent Proxy has been implemented for the
- runtime (lets you run/debug/hack on remoting for Mono) (Dietmar)
-
- * Inline and constant folding/propagation support
- in the JIT engine (Dietmar)
-
- * Profiling support for the JIT engine (--profile).
-
- * Cool runtime hacks, that made our compiler twice as fast:
-
- * New string rewrite: faster, speedier, leaner, cooler!
-
- Paolo had been talking about a new string rewrite,
- and super hacker Patrik Torstensson started the
- implementation, Dietmar then switched the object
- layout and the Mono team helped iron out a few of
- the details.
-
- * New array reprensetation: Dan Lewis contributed a new
- faster and smaller array implementation.
-
- * Improved Reflection.Emit: Paolo improved our
- reflection emit code.
-
- * ADO.NET
-
- * Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya have some pieces of the
- Sql classes ready to run. he first signs of life
- this week (we can connect, insert rows; do transactions:
- commit/rollback; SQL errors and exceptions work).
-
- * Http Runtime
-
- * The HTTP runtime (to be used by our ASP.NET implementation)
- was contributed by Patrik Torstensson. Patrik not only
- contributed a massive ammount of classes, but he immediately
- went on to implement ThreadPools and then helped out with the
- new String rewrite.
-
- * XML improvements:
-
- * Kral Ferch and Duncan Mak contributed more
- improvements to the XML implementation.
-
- * Work on Xml Serialization from John Donagher.
-
- * Documentation:
-
- * MonoDoc ships for the first time!
- (John Barnette, Adam Treat and John Sohn)
-
- * New documentation stubs ready to be filled, and translated
- included (thanks to our doc team!)
-
- * General fixes:
-
- * Piers Haken fixed many of our attributes and many
- little problems that were exposed by his CorCompare tool
-
- * Many Mono C# compiler bug fixes.
-
- * Other improvements:
-
- * NUnit works on Linux! (Patrik Torstensson)
-
- * More NUnit tests (Nick Drochak)
-
- * Windows.Forms progress: Dennis Hayes and Christian
- Meyer have been contributing stubs for the
- Windows.Forms work.
-
- * Full Parse implementations and bug fixing by Gonzalo
-
- * Dan Lewis contributed some missing classes for the
- Regexp implementation.
-
- * Jonathan's trace classes
-
-* This Month's Mono is brought to you by:
-
- Adam Treat, Chris Podugriel, Christian Meyer, Daniel Lewis,
- Daniel Morgan, Dennis Hayes, Dick Porter, Dietmar Maurer,
- Duncan Mak, Guarav Vaish, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jaime Anguiano,
- Jason Diamond, Joe Shaw, John Barnette, John Donagher, John
- Sohn, Jonathan Pryor, Kral Ferch, Martin Baulig, Miguel de
- Icaza, Mike Kestner, Nick Drochak, Paolo Molaro, Patrik
- Tostensson, Piers Haken, Ravi Pratap, Rodrigo Moya, Sergey
- Chanben, Ultrich Kunitz, Wictor Wilen.
-
- I know that I missed some features, there is a lot of work
- that happens in a month. I apologize in advance for any
- features I omited by accident.
-
- Special thanks go to Duncan for helping out with all those
- little details in the project. And also Nick who has been
- keeping us in good shape by maintaining and helping new
- contributors provide more test suites.
-
-* Reporting bugs
-
- If you find a bug in Mono, please file a bug here:
-
- http://bugzilla.ximian.com
-
- That way we wont loose your bug report, and will be able to
- follow up properly with it. Also try to provide simple test
- cases whenever possible and try as hard as possible to
- identify the root of a problem (compiler, runtime, class
- libraries).
-
-* Forum
-
- The mono-list-request@ximian.com mailing list is open for
- those of you who want to discuss the future of Mono.
-
-Hello everyone!
-
- Mono "Self Hosting" 0.10 is out! (Alex insisted I used the
- <blink> tag for "Self Hosting", but was dissapointed when he
- realized most mailers dont support this).
-
- Too many things have happened since the the 0.9 release,
- almost an entire month. The big news is that we are shipping
- a the self-hosting Mono C# compiler. This has been tested on
- Linux/x86 only.
-
- Also, we delayed the release for one reason or other, but it
- turns out that as a extra bonus, Paolo fixed the last
- outstanding bug in the JIT engine, so the compiler now runs in
- the JIT engine instead of the interpreter.
-
- The mono-0.10 release includes the libraries required to run
- the compiler as well as assorted .NET programs [1].
-
-* What is new
-
- There is so much stuff in this release that is hard to keep
- track of it.
-
- Jason, Kral and Duncan have done an amazing job with
- System.Xml, up to the point that it is even being used by
- gtk-sharp's code generator (and it all comes with great test
- suites to verify that it works!). Ajay's XmlSchema code is
- also shipped.
-
- Martin worked on our debugging infrastructure (the JIT can
- load dwarf files, and our class libraries now generate dwarf
- debugging info; we are in the process of adding this to the
- compiler, the patch did not make it to this release though).
-
- For the first time the System.Web assembly has built without
- all the excludes, so you can get your hands on Gaurav and
- Lee's massive code base.
-
- Lots of new tests to the runtime, class libraries and compiler
- are included. As always, big thanks go to Nick for continued
- guidance to new developers, and writing new tests.
-
- Dan removed the System.PAL dependency, we now have moved to an
- internalcall setup for all the System.IO calls, and dropped
- the MonoWrapper shared library.
-
- Porting wise: Sergey's StrongARM port is included now; Jeff's
- SPARC port and Radek's PowerPC port have been updated to
- reflect the new changes in the engine.
-
- Runtime wise: Dietmar also got us asyncronous delegates
- implemented. Dick continues his work on our foundation
- classes, and has resumed his work on the IO layer.
-
- Paolo is the hero behind self hosting on Linux. Send your
- congrats (and wine) to him.
-
- And without the help from Mike, Duco, David, Piers, Nick,
- Sergey, Mark, Jonathan, John, Adam and Dennis this release
- would have not been possible.
-
- This release is mostly ECMA compatible. I did not expect this
- to happen so soon. I am very grateful to everyone who has
- made this happen
-
-* The goods
-
- The runtime sources and binaries to the compiler/libraries:
-
- http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz
-
- The class and compiler sources:
-
- http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz
-
-* Requirements:
-
- You still need glib-2, and pkg-config. If you plan on
- compiling large applications, getting the Boehm GC is a plus
- (we will integrate this in a future version, for now it is an
- external requirement).
-
- Boehm GC is available in packaged format for Debian and Red
- Hat systems.
-
-* To compile on Linux
-
- Do your regular chores with mono-0.10.tar.gz, you know the
- drill. In the end, after you reach the `make install' phase,
- now you can do some cool stuff.
-
- If you want to compile the compiler (just to try it out),
- untar the sources to the compiler (mcs-0.10.tar.gz) and do
- manually:
-
- cd mcs-0.10
- (cd jay; make)
- (cd mcs; make monomcs)
-
- Now you will end up with a nice mcs4.exe in the mcs/mcs
- directory, that is the compiler. If you want to use that,
- replace the mcs.exe we distribute with the mcs4.exe you got.
-
-* Gadgets
-
- Man pages for mcs, mono and mint are included for your
- enjoyment.
-
- Particularly of interest is `mint --profile' which is awesome
- to profile your application, the output is very useful.
-
- Also, if you want to impress your friends, you might want to
- run the JIT with the `-d' flag, that shows you how the JITer
- compiles the code (and shows the basic blocks and the forst of
- trees as it goes).
-
-* Next steps
-
- More classes are missing. These are required so we can run
- nant and nunit natively. Once we achieve that, we will be
- able to ship a complete environment that compiles on Linux.
-
- Currently our makefiles still use csc, as we still need
- nunit/nant to work.
-
-[1] Of course, .NET programs that try to use classes we have not yet
-implemented, will be left wondering `why did this happen to me?'.
-
-Hello!
-
- I have just uploaded Mono 0.9 to the web server, you can get
- the goodies here:
-
- http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz
- http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz
-
- mono-0.9.tar.gz contains the source code to the runtime (JIT
- and interpreter) as well as a pre-compiled version of the
- compiler (mcs.exe) and the class libraries.
-
- To compile the compiler and the class libraries, you still
- need Windows with the .NET SDK, as our runtime can not host
- the compiler completely yet.
-
-* Improved Build System
-
- You can check http://www.go-mono.com/download.html for the
- new and fresh compilation instructions. Same requirements as
- the last version (pkg-config, glib 1.3.xx need to be
- installed).
-
-* What is new:
-
- Compiler can compile about 75% of our regression test suite
- on Linux. Most of this work is on the class libraries and
- Paolo has been the magician behind the work here.
-
- JIT can run the compiler now (Dietmar)
-
- Mint works on Windows now (Dick).
-
- Application Domains have been implemented (Dietmar)
-
- * Two modes of operation are available, depending on
- your needs: share code, or maximize speed (does not
- share code). This is described by the the
- LoaderOptimization enumeration in .NET.
-
- Corlib no longer has references to mscorlib (Daniel Lewis)
-
- Ports:
- PowerPC has been updated (Radek Doulik)
- New SPARC port (Jeffrey Stedfast)
-
- Documentation system:
- Adam Treat has been working on finishing the Doctools
- to maintain the Mono class library documentation. We
- still need a GUI editor though.
-
- Tracking progress:
- Nick's new tools to track progress are included in
- this release.
-
- Many new more regression tests for the class library
- (David Brandt, Mark Crichton, Nick Drochak, Bob Doan,
- Duco Fijma).
-
- Lots of new code:
- Gaurav Vaish (the hacking god behind System.Web),
- Chris Podugriel (System.Data) and Mark Crichton (Crypto)
-
- Runtime:
- Socket layer is finished (Dick Porter)
-
- Compiler has full support for unsafe code now (Miguel)
- Still a few things missing: constant folding is not
- finished everywhere and access permissions are not
- enforced yet.
-
- Many many many bug fixes everywhere from everyone on the team:
-
- Paolo Molaro, Daniel Lewis, Daniel Stodden, Dietmar
- Maurer, Jeff Stedfast, Nick Drochak, Duco Fijma, Ravi Pratap,
- Dick Porter, Duncan Mak, Jeff Stedfast and Miguel de Icaza.
-
- I am sorry if I left a major component out of the
- announcement, this were some intense 11 days of work.
-
-* What is obviously missing
-
- Currently our System.Reflection.Emit is lacking array and
- pointer support, which is why many programs still do not
- compile, but this should be taken care of next week.
-
-* How can you help
-
- There are many ways to help the project, check the details
- documentation in:
-
- http://www.go-mono.com/contributing.html
-
- You might also want to stop by our IRC channel on
- irc.gnome.org, channel #mono if you are interested in
- contributing.
-
-Have a happy weekend!
-Miguel.
-
-Hey guys!
-
- Mono 0.7 has been released.
-
- It has been a long time since the last release of Mono (almost
-three weeks). We have made an incredible ammount of work in the past
-three weeks.
-
-* Highlights of this release:
-
- * The monoburg: BURS-instruction selector implemented (for our
- portable JIT engine).
-
- * JIT engine works for very simple programs (Fibonacci works
- for instance). It is about 30% faster running than the
- equivalent code compiled with Kaffe.
-
- The interesting part is that this was accomplished with the
- a minimum register allocator, and very simple monoburg
- rules, so there is a *lot* of room to improve here.
-
- * The Interpreter has madured a lot. Value Types are fully
- supported now; We dropped the FFI dependency, as we now
- have our own code generator.
-
- * The runtime has been expanded and extended as to support
- real file I/O (including console I/O). So Hello World works
- in there.
-
- * The compiler can generate code for most statements now; It
- also performs semantic analysis on most expressions.
- Creation of new objects is supported, access to parameters,
- fields and local variables works. Method invocation works.
- Implicit type conversions, assignments and much more.
-
- Operator overloading is implemented, but broken on this
- release, hopefully this will be fixed soon.
-
- Delegates and Attributes are now declared and passed around,
- but no code generation for those exist yet.
-
- * More classes (look for details). Sergey and Paolo have been
- working on various classes in System.Reflection.Emit to get
- the compiler self-hosting.
-
- * NUnit is now part of the distribution, so it should be
- trivial to write test cases (and if you want to help out,
- this is one way to do it, we really need more tests cases).
-
- I am going to try to switch to Nick's JB for C# this week or next
-week. But the excitement of having the compiler deal with real C#
-programs is too much to be contained, and I can not keep my hands of
-the code generation in the compiler.
-
-* Availability:
-
- http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.7.tar.gz
- http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mcs-0.7.tar.gz
-
-* Details
-
- Class Library Changes:
-
- Many enumerations have been revamped to have the same value
-definitions as those in .NET as those cause problems. They were also
-missing the [Flags] attributes, so we got that right too.
-
- * System
- SerializableAttribute impl (Miguel)
- String updates (Jeff)
- System.Char (Ravi)
-
- * System.Configuration
- ConfigurationSettings impl (Christopher Podurgiel)
- SingleTagSectionHandler impl (Christopher Podurgiel)
- DictionarySectionHandler impl (Christopher Podurgiel)
-
- * System.Collections.Specialized
- NameObjectCollectionBase impl (Nick Drochak)
-
- * System.Diagnostics
- StackFrame stubs (alexk)
- StackTrace stubs (alexk)
-
- * System.IO
- File stubs (Jim Richardson)
- IOException impl (Paolo)
- StreamWriter impl (Dietmar)
- StreamReader stubs (Dietmar)
-
- * System.Net
- ConnectionModes (Miguel)
- ProxyUseType (Miguel)
- WebStatus (Miguel)
-
- * System.Reflection
- Assembly (stubs) (Paolo)
- MethodBase (Paolo)
- MethodInfo (Paolo)
-
- * System.Reflection.Emit
- EventToken (Sergey)
- FieldToken (Sergey)
- FlowControl (Sergey)
- ILGenerator (stubbed) (Paolo)
- Label (Paolo)
- MethodToken (Sergey)
- OpCode.cs (Sergey)
- OpCodeType (Sergey)
- OpCodes.cs (Sergey)
- OperandType (Sergey)
- PEFileKinds (Paolo)
- PackingSize (Sergey)
- ParameterToken (Sergey)
- PropertyToken (Sergey)
- SignatureToken (Sergey)
- StackBehaviour (Sergey)
- StringToken (Sergey)
- TypeToken (Sergey)
-
- * System.Threading
-
- Most classes stubbed out by Dick Porter (Dick)
-
- * System.Web
- HttpWorkerRequest stubs (Bob Smith)
-
- * System.Web.Hosting (Bob Smith)
- AppDomainFactory stubs (Bob Smith)
- ApplicationHost stubs (Bob Smith)
- IAppDomainFactory stubs (Bob Smith)
- IISAPIRuntime stubs (Bob Smith)
- ISAPIRuntime stubs (Bob Smith)
- SimpleWorkerRequest stubs (Bob Smith)
-
- * System.Web.UI
- LiteralControl implemented (Bob Smith)
- HtmlContainerControl bugfixes (Bob Smith)
- BuildMethod
- BuildTemplateMethod
- HtmlTextWriterAttribute
- HtmlTextWriterStyle
- HtmlTextWriterTag
- IAttributeAccessor
- IDataBindingsAccessor
- INamingContainer
- IParserAccessor
- IPostBackDataHandler
- IPostBackEventHandler
- IStateManager
- ITagNameToTypeMapper
- ITemplate
- IValidator
- ImageClickEventHandler
- OutputCacheLocation
- PersistanceMode
- StateItem
-
- * System.Web.UI.HtmlControls
- HtmlAnchor impl (Leen Teolen)
- HtmlTextArea impl (Leen Teolen)
-
- * System.Web.UI.WebControls
- WebControl.cs (Gaurav Vaish)
-
- * System.XML
- Lots of enumerations (Miguel)
- (will add later)
-
- * Add loads of enumerations throughout (Sergey)
- (will add later)
-
-Compiler Changes:
-
- * Assignment (Miguel)
-
- * expression semantic analysis (Miguel)
-
- * constructor creation, chaining (Miguel)
-
- * Unified error reporting (Ravi)
-
- * initial attribute support (Ravi)
-
- * calling convention support (Miguel)
-
- * loop construct code generation (Miguel)
-
- * conditional statement code generation (Miguel)
-
- * indexer declarations (Ravi)
-
- * event declarations (Ravi)
-
- * try/catch parsing fixed (Ravi)
-
- * initial delegate support (Ravi)
-
- * operator overload (Ravi)
-
-Tools Changes:
-
- * Add NUnit windows binaries to distribution (Nick Drochak, Miguel)
-
-Runtime Changes:
-
- * First JIT implementation (Dietmar, Paolo)
-
- * value type size calculation (Dietmar)
-
- * full value type support (Paolo)
-
- * frequently used types cache (Paolo)
-
- * FileStream support (Paolo)
-
- * Console input/output support (Dietmar)
-
- * print arguments and exception name in stack trace (Paolo)
-
- * beginnings of virtual call support (Paolo)
-
- * reimplement pinvoke support (Dietmar)
-
- * remove libffi dependency (Dietmar)
-
- * IBURG code generator implementation (Dietmar)
-
- * new opcodes implemented: starg.s, ldobj, isinst, (Paolo, Miguel)
- ldarg, starg, ldloc, ldloca, stloc, initobj,
- cpblk, sizeof, conv.i, conv.i1, conv.i2, conv.i4,
- conv.i8, conv.u1, conv.u2, conv.u4, conv.r4,
- conv.r8, ldelema, ceq, cgt, clt.
-
-* This list
-
- Parts of this list of features were compiled by Alex by following
-the CVS mailing list. My deepest thanks to Alex for helping me out
-with this. I want to apologize for the missing features that I did
-not document here, Mono is moving too fast to keep track of all the
-changes.
-
-2002-Feb-11 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@ximian.com>
-
- New release, functional x86-JIT, x86 interpreter, ppc interpreter
-
- Class libraries ship.
-
- Limited compiler ships.
-
- Too many changes to list
-
-2001-07-12 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@ximian.com>
-
- New XSLT file from Sergey Chaban for CIL opcodes
-
- Paolo got the beginning of an interpreter in.
-
- Further work on the dissasembler.
-
- Fix various parts of the metadata library
-
-2001-05-30 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@ximian.com>
-
- Project started
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