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| author | Aaron Weber <aaron@mono-cvs.ximian.com> | 2004-02-11 18:40:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Aaron Weber <aaron@mono-cvs.ximian.com> | 2004-02-11 18:40:35 +0300 |
| commit | 0f5da7211af509ffbbe3349d10c55ab39ddd28be (patch) | |
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2004-02-05 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com>
* README: update to describe better how to use the doc/web stuff
* index: change layout, move old news to oldnews page, rewrite
content, add new headings, decrease size of other headings.
* jit-debug: change link to martin's page; now it points to the
dir holding the debugger files. Fix grammar in one sentence.
* oldnews: erase very old news, add slightly old news removed from
index
* web/htmlify: shrink size of newsitem headings.
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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index d20ca107937..098e025d61d 100755 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +2004-02-05 Aaron Weber <aaron@ximian.com> + + * README: update to describe better how to use the doc/web stuff + + * index: change layout, move old news to oldnews page, rewrite + content, add new headings, decrease size of other headings. + + * jit-debug: change link to martin's page; now it points to the + dir holding the debugger files. Fix grammar in one sentence. + + * oldnews: erase very old news, add slightly old news removed from + index + + * web/htmlify: shrink size of newsitem headings. + 2004-02-03 Atsushi Enomoto <atsushi@ximian.com> * xml-classes : updates diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README index 47401890085..f10cd5d88de 100644 --- a/doc/README +++ b/doc/README @@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ To publish changes: cd web make push +################ Requirements + +You must have complete and working "mono" and "mcs" checkouts from +CVS. You will probably need to bootstrap your Mono installation, +although an existing install from RPMs may permit you to build the CVS +versions more easily. + ############## Samples diff --git a/doc/index b/doc/index index 0c23299cf71..ad7a0b57339 100644 --- a/doc/index +++ b/doc/index @@ -1,154 +1,152 @@ <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="index.rss"/> -<table> - <tr> - <td valign="top"> - <a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the - launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an open source - implementation of the .NET Development Framework. - - Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the - C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the - Common Language Infrastructure (also referred as the CLR) and a - set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The - runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your - application. It implements of both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a> - and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>. - - You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for - this project. If you have questions about the project, please - read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked - Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact - us.</a> The project <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>. - You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the - source</a> for our work so far. Grab a <a - href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work, or <a - href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse - the sources</a> - - You might want to <a - href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe</a> to our mono-list - and mono-announce-list. There is also a <a - href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a - href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a>. - - Wikis: <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk# Wiki</a> - and <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono - Wiki</a> - - </td> - <td> - <table border=1> + <table align="right" border=1 padding=0 width=25%> <tr> - <td colspan="3"> - <b><center>Mono Status</center></b> + <td colspan="2" bgcolor=lightgrey> + <b><center>In the news</center></b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b> + <img src="images/2003osdirwinnerbadge.gif"> </td> <td> - <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br> - Self hosting on .NET. - </td> + <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award. + </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - <b>JIT</b> + <img src="images/netmagazine.png"> </td> <td> - Linux/x86 working. + + <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - <b>Interpreter</b> + <img src="images/infoworld.png"> </td> <td> - Working:<br> - Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 <br> + <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans. </td> </tr> <tr> - <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td> - <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td> - </tr> - <tr> <td> - <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b> + <img src="images/infoworld.png"> </td> <td> - All assemblies compile. + <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono? </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - RSS feed: + <img src="images/b2.png"> </td> <td> - <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a> + <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight. </td> - </tr> + </tr> <tr> - <td> - <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshots</a> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - - <table border=1> - <tr> - <td colspan="3"> - <b><center>In the news</center></b> + <td colspan="2" bgcolor=lightgrey> + <b><center>Mono Status</center></b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - <img src="images/2003osdirwinnerbadge.gif"> + <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b> </td> <td> - <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award. - </td> + Self hosting on Linux and .NET + </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - <img src="images/netmagazine.png"> + <b>JIT:</b> </td> <td> - - <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration. + Works for Linux/x86 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - <img src="images/infoworld.png"> + <b>Interpreter:</b> </td> <td> - <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">May 22nd, 2003</a>: Mono 1.0 plans. + Works for + Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, S390, StrongARM, SPARC, HPPA, SPARC v9 </td> </tr> <tr> + <td><b><a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a></b></td> + <td>Webforms and WebServices working<br></td> + </tr> + <tr> <td> - <img src="images/infoworld.png"> + <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b> </td> <td> - <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono? + All assemblies compile. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - <img src="images/b2.png"> + RSS feed: </td> <td> - <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight. + <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a> </td> </tr> + </table> - </td> - </tr> -</table> + + +<h2>Mono: Free C# and .NET on Linux and Windows</h2> +<p> + The Mono project is an open source effort sponsored by <a + href="http://novell.com">Novell</a> to create a free + implementation of the .NET Development Framework. +</p> + +<p> + Mono includes <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the + C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">Common Language + Runtime</a> (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a + set of <a href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>. The + runtime can be <a href="embedded-api.html">embedded</a> into your + application. It implements both <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET</a> + and <a href="asp-net.html">ASP.NET</a>. +</p> +<p> + If you have questions about the project, read <a + href="rationale.html">the project launch statement</a> + or visit our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked + Questions</a>. +</p> + +<p> + For details on the project's future direction, read the + <a href="mono-roadmap.html">roadmap</a>, and <a + href="download.html">download</a> the latest software version. + You can also get a <a href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our + current work, or <a + href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=mono">browse + the source tree.</a> +</p> +<p> + To participate in discussion and development, <a + href="mailing-lists.html">subscribe to our mailing lists</a>. + You can also visit the <a + href="http://www.gotmono.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl">forum</a> at <a + href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono</a> or the <a + href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki">Gtk#</a> and + <a href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki">Mono + </a> Wikis. +</p> +<br> +<br> +<h2>Mono Project Notes</h2> @item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released @@ -190,429 +188,7 @@ Zoltan has added support for modules to MCS (generation and consumption). -@item Dec 10th: Mono Debugger 0.5 released - - Martin Baulig has <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/blog/archives/000231.html">released</a> - a new version of the Mono Debugger. - -@item Dec 2nd: Mono 0.29 has been released - - Check out the <a - href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.html">Release - notes</a> for details on Mono 0.29. - - This release includes the PPC JIT engine running `Hello World' - and ASP.NET is considered feature-complete. - -@item Nov 25th: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices - - Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from <a - href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">the Gtk# web site</a>. - - Sunil has checked in the implementation of - System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap - code into Mono CVS. - -@item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released. - - Mike Kestner has <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016943.html">announced</a> - the release of the <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> - GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono. - -@item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET - - Sunil Kumar at Novell has <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016907.html">announced</a> - the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for - Mono and the .NET Framework. - - You can obtain the library from <a - href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> <a - href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/ldapcsharp/CsharpLDAP">CSharpLDAP</a> - module. - -@item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced. - - The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a - href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 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 <a - href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts - a <a - href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono - Community</a>. - - 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 <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS - servers</a> - -@item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus - - Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international - substrate in Mono that uses the <a - href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International - Components for Unicode</a> 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 <a - href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> 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 <a - href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep - an eye on recent developments. - - Bernie Solomon just <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked - in</a> 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 <a - href="download.html">download</a> page. - -@item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs - - You can now read an aggregated view of the <a - href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in - <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>. - Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a - href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>. - -@item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7 - - Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a - href="download.html">download</a> page. - - A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version - is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a> - -@item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released. - - Check out the <a - href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release - notes</a> 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 <a - href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325799/qid=1064937318/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9624440-8714218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">available</a> - in English. Originally available only in <a - href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>. - The book technical review was done by <a - href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT - architect at the Mono team. - -@item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released. - - Mike Kestner has <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a> - a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>. - - Martin has also - <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a> - his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#. - -@item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE. - - <b>WineLib:</b> 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: - <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a - href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a - href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a - href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>. - - Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme, - screenshot here (link got broken). - - <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has - been checked into CVS. - - <b>Xslt:</b> 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. - - <b>Generics:</b> 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. - - <b>Wsdl:</b> 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. - - <b>AOT:</b> 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. - - <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on - go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our - Monodoc documentation. The <a - href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module - version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP - version</a>. - - <b>WSE:</b> 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. - - <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an - implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a> - <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> 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 <a - href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of - differences</a>). - - <b>XmlSerializer</b>: 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. - - <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a - href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> 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: - <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a - href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a> - 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 <a - href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release - notes</a> for details. - -@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up. - - Brian Lloyd has <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a> - the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works - with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see - Brian's site at <a href=" - http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a> - - We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core - libraries and Gtk#) to <a - href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>. - The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a - href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> 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 <a - href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a> - page on the <a - href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>. - - 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 <a - href="download.html">download page</a>. - -@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 <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a - href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is - available <a - href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>. - - 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 <a - href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>: - 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's - post</a> - -@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots - - MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software - are now available from our (<a - href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the - progress on our <a - href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki - page.</a> - - We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in - three distinct flavors: - - <ul> - * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and - contain everything necessary to setup a new - installation from scratch. This includes the Mono - runtime and all the assemblies we distribute. - - * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only - the assemblies built on that day. - - * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of - 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and - 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to - re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation. - </ul> - - The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a> - - 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state - of WSDL</a> 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a> - - 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). - <h2>Older News</h2> - Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see the olds news. - + Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see older news. diff --git a/doc/jit-debug b/doc/jit-debug index 7d8df584596..57ec9065263 100644 --- a/doc/jit-debug +++ b/doc/jit-debug @@ -60,13 +60,14 @@ $2 = void href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/011415.html">post</a>. The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces. - The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported + The debugging file format used in Dwarf (it's already supported by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2 flag to gcc). - The debugger is available now, you can get it from <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/debugger/mono-debugger-0.2.0.tar.gz">here</a> + You can download the releases from <a + href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/debugger/">Martin Baulig's + home page.</a> diff --git a/doc/oldnews b/doc/oldnews index a24afbd651f..61d2464bcd0 100644 --- a/doc/oldnews +++ b/doc/oldnews @@ -1,3 +1,425 @@ +@item Dec 10th: Mono Debugger 0.5 released + + Martin Baulig has <a + href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/blog/archives/000231.html">released</a> + a new version of the Mono Debugger. + +@item Dec 2nd: Mono 0.29 has been released + + Check out the <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.29.html">Release + notes</a> for details on Mono 0.29. + + This release includes the PPC JIT engine running `Hello World' + and ASP.NET is considered feature-complete. + +@item Nov 25th: Gtk# 0.14, System.DirectoryServices + + Gtk# 0.14 has been released, and it is available from <a + href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">the Gtk# web site</a>. + + Sunil has checked in the implementation of + System.DirectoryServices as well as the Novell.Directory.Ldap + code into Mono CVS. + +@item Nov 14th: Gtk# 0.13 released. + + Mike Kestner has <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016943.html">announced</a> + the release of the <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> + GUI toolkit for .NET and Mono. + +@item Nov 13th: Managed LDAP binding for Mono and .NET + + Sunil Kumar at Novell has <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-November/016907.html">announced</a> + the availability of a fully managed implementation of LDAP for + Mono and the .NET Framework. + + You can obtain the library from <a + href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> <a + href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/ldapcsharp/CsharpLDAP">CSharpLDAP</a> + module. + +@item Nov 4th: Mono Roadmap announced. + + The <a href="mono-roadmap.html">Mono Roadmap</a> and <a + href="mono-hacking-roadmap.html">Mono Hackers Roadmap</a> 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 <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> 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 <a + href="http://forge.novell.com">Novell Forge's</a> which hosts + a <a + href="http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/community/?monocomm">Mono + Community</a>. + + 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 <a href="anoncvs.html">anonymous CVS + servers</a> + +@item Oct 13th: SPARC V9, HPPA, Internationalization, GdiPlus + + Dick Porter has checked in our rewrite of the international + substrate in Mono that uses the <a + href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International + Components for Unicode</a> 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 <a + href="http://www.cairographics.org">Cairo</a> 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 <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a> to keep + an eye on recent developments. + + Bernie Solomon just <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-October/002460.html">checked + in</a> 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 <a + href="download.html">download</a> page. + +@item Oct 5th: Monologue aggregates Mono Blogs + + You can now read an aggregated view of the <a + href="blogs.html">blogs</a> maintained by Mono developers in + <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/monologue">Monologue</a>. + Monologue is available as an HTML page or as an <a + href="monologue/index.rss">RSS feed</a>. + +@item Oct 2nd: Windows packages, MonoDoc 0.7 + + Windows packages for Mono 0.28 are now available from our <a + href="download.html">download</a> page. + + A new version of MonoDoc has been released. The new version + is available <a href="archive/monodoc-0.7.tar.gz">here</a> + +@item Oct 1st: Mono 0.28 has been released. + + Check out the <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.28.html">Release + notes</a> 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 <a + href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672325799/qid=1064937318/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9624440-8714218?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">available</a> + in English. Originally available only in <a + href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">German</a>. + The book technical review was done by <a + href="http://www.maurer-it.com/">Dietmar Maurer</a> JIT + architect at the Mono team. + +@item Sep 26th, 2003: DiaCanvas# 0.1 released, Gtk# 0.11 released. + + Mike Kestner has <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-September/002475.html">released</a> + a new version of <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>. + + Martin has also + <a href="http://mwh.sysrq.dk/programs/announcements/diacanvas-sharp-0.1.0.html">released</a> + his binding to <a href="http://diacanvas.sf.net">DiaCanvas</a> for C#. + +@item Sep 16th, 2003: WineLib, Authenticode, Generics, Xslt updates, Wsdl compiler, WSE. + + <b>WineLib:</b> 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: + <a href="images/colordlg.png">here</a>, <a + href="images/fontdlg.png">here</a>, <a + href="images/filedlg.png">here</a> and <a + href="images/finddlg.png">here</a>. + + Johannes has patches to have Wine track the Gtk theme, + screenshot here (link got broken). + + <b>Security:</b> New authenticode support from Sebastien has + been checked into CVS. + + <b>Xslt:</b> 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. + + <b>Generics:</b> 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. + + <b>Wsdl:</b> 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. + + <b>AOT:</b> 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. + + <b>Dogfooding:</b> We are now running Mono's ASP.NET on + go-mono.com to find problems. It is currently hosting our + Monodoc documentation. The <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.html">Apache module + version</a> and the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com:8080/">XSP + version</a>. + + <b>WSE:</b> 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. + + <b>Ice:</b> Vladimir has checked into CVS (Module ginzu) an + implementation of <a href="http://www.zeroc.com">ZeroC's</a> + <a href="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">ICE</a> 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 <a + href="http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html">list of + differences</a>). + + <b>XmlSerializer</b>: 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. + + <b>MonoDoc:</b> New providers! Thanks to <a + href="http://www.jaggersoft.com/">Jon Jagger</a> 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: + <a href="http://www.cairographics.org/">Cairo support</a>, <a + href="http://remoting-corba.sf.net">Remoting.Corba</a> + 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 <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.26.html">Release + notes</a> for details. + +@item Aug 9th, 2003: Python for .NET Preview 2 available; Mono Documentation site up. + + Brian Lloyd has <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-August/015313.html">announced</a> + the availability of his Python binding to .NET. This works + with .NET and Mono. For more information about it, see + Brian's site at <a href=" + http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/">http://zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/</a> + + We have uploaded the current Mono Documentation (core + libraries and Gtk#) to <a + href="http://mono.ximian.com:8080"/>http://mono.ximian.com:8080</a>. + The site is running the ASP.NET edition of <a + href="archive/monodoc-0.6.tar.gz">MonoDoc 0.6</a> 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 <a + href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">WineSamples</a> + page on the <a + href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/">Mono Wiki</a>. + + 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 <a + href="download.html">download page</a>. + +@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 <a href="http://www.novell.com">Novell</a> acquired <a + href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a>. The press release is + available <a + href="http://www.ximian.com./about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell">here</a>. + + 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 <a + href="http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/">Remoting.CORBA</a>: + 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 <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001681.html">Ben's + post</a> + +@item Jul 27th, 2003: Wine packages and Daily Snapshots + + MonoWine packages (used to run System.Windows.Forms) software + are now available from our (<a + href="download.html">download</a> page). You can track the + progress on our <a + href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/mono/wiki/index.php/WineSamples">Wiki + page.</a> + + We're now building daily snapshots of Mono. They come in + three distinct flavors: + + <ul> + * mono snapshot tarballs - These are 'release-style' tarballs and + contain everything necessary to setup a new + installation from scratch. This includes the Mono + runtime and all the assemblies we distribute. + + * monocharge tarballs - These tarballs contain only + the assemblies built on that day. + + * monolite tarballs - These tarballs contain a copy of + 'corlib.dll', 'mcs.exe', 'System.dll', 'System.Xml.dll' and + 'Mono.CSharp.Debugger.dll'. They can be used to + re-bootstrap an out-of-sync installation. + </ul> + + The daily builds are availble here: <a href="http://go-mono.com/daily">http://go-mono.com/daily</a> + + 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 <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001550.html">state + of WSDL</a> 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 <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001506.html">here</a> + + 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 @@ -173,2313 +595,3 @@ 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013269.html">here</a> - - Zoltan has commited his <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-April/000274.html">typed - allocation</a> patches to CVS as well. - -@item Apr 3rd, 2003: NUnit 2.0 GTK# GUI; GtkMozEmbed; SWT# - - Gonzalo has checked in his <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a>-based - <a href="http://nunit.org">NUnit</a> tool. Screenshots are <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/running.png">here</a> - and <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~gonzalo/mono/shots/finished.png">here</a> - - Mark has checked his bindings for Gtk-based Mozilla into CVS, - module name: `GtkMozEmbed'. Read the <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-April/013247.html">details</a> - - The SWT port to C# using Gtk is <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/sd-mono-port/2003-March/000114.html">progressing</a>. Screenshots are - <a href="http://www.roboto.ch/swt">here</a>. - -@item Mar 28th: Mono community site. - - <a href="http://www.gotmono.com">www.gotmono.com</a> has - openend its door: Got Mono is a Mono Community site. - -@item Mar 25th: Second Mono Survey - - <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="blue"> - <tr> - <td valign="top"> - <div style="background: #c0d0ff; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 1px;"> - 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 <a - href="mailto:mbadgett@ximian.com">mbadgett@ximian.com</a>. - </div> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - -@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 <a href="archive/mono-0.23">here</a>. 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 <a - href="archive/mono-0.22">release notes</a>. This is a bug fix - release. - - A new preview of MonoDoc 0.2, the Mono Documentation browser - has been <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-March/001266.html">released</a>. - - Martin also announced a <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-March/012756.html">new - release</a> of the Mono Debugger (both GUI and command line). - -@item Mar 3rd, 2003: The Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame welcomes Zoltan Varga - - The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> - continues to show our appreciation to the excellent - contributors that make <b>mono::</b> 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 <a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a> Java virtual - machine. - -@item Mar 2nd, 2003: New Mono mailing list. - - A new mailing list for <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list">Mono - Development</a> 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 <a href="archive/mono-0.21">release notes</a> are available. - - Windows binary is available <a href="archive/mono-0.21-win32-1.exe">here</a> - -@item Feb 25th, 2003: Mono 0.20 for Windows released; New Apache module released. - - Packages of Mono for Windows have been <a - href="archive/mono-0.20-stable-win32-2.exe">released</a>. - 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 <a - href="http://apacheworld.org/modmono/">here</a> - - Nick has posted an update on the progress on our <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012467.html">regression - tests</a>. 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 <a - href="archive/mono-0.20">release notes</a> for an overview of - the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>. - There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes - and performance improvements. - - Gtk# 0.8 has been <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2003-February/001114.html">released</a> - - <b>Important</b>: The contributed binaries for Windows - binaries of Mono 0.20 contain a virus. Please read <a - href="virus.html">this</a> 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 <a - href="documentation.html">here</a>. Mail the <a - href="mailto:mono-docs-list@ximian.com">mono-docs-list@ximian.com</a> - for further discussion. - -@item Feb 14th, 2003: OpenGL# bindings for Mono; Mono Basic updates. - - Mark Crichton has completed his OpenGL/GLUT bindings for - Gnome. A screenshot can be seen <a - href="sshots/oglcs.png">here</a>. The bindings are available - on the Mono CVS repository on the module `glgen'. This is a - straight binding to the C API. - - Marco has <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011752.html">posted - an update</a> on the current state of the free VB.NET compiler - for Mono. - - We are looking for contributors and maintainers to the - JavaScript compiler as well (Janet) - -@item Feb 12th, 2003: New assemblies, Gtk# stub documentation, Authenticode, Polish site - - Mono now distributes a few new assemblies: Mono.Security.Win32 - as a layer to use the crypto functionality on Win32. The - Mono.Posix assembly which contains functionality for taking - advantage of Unix facilities. - - A <a href="http://www.go-mono.pl/">Mono site in Poland</a>. - - Stubs for the Gtk# documentation have been checked into CVS. - If you want to contribute please read <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/012108.html">this - message</a> - - Mono development is moving quickly: Tim and Daniel have been - improving the Oracle database provider and Sebastien Pouliot - has got code signing to work using Authenticode with pure open - source and managed code. Plenty of new VB.NET work from Marco - (compiler) and Daniel (runtime). Also Jackson has resumed - work on the IL assembler and the fully managed library to - generate CIL images (Sergey wrote the first Mono.PEToolkit). - -@item Feb 11th, 2003: Mono Weekly News, New assemblies. - - <a href="http://monoevo.sourceforge.net/mwn/index.html">Mono - Weekly News</a>: Includes a new interview, software - announcements and the PHP/Mono integration. - -@item Feb 5th, 2003: MonoDoc 0.1 - - A <a - href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/monodoc-0.1.tar.gz">preliminary - release</a> of the Mono Documentation Browser is now availble. - Release <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-February/011935.html">notes</a> - -@item Jan, 22th, 2003: Mono wins award, OpenLink releases Virtuoso. - - Mono won the `Best Open Source Project' award at the Linux - World Expo. A description is <a - href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-23-024-26-OP-EV">here</a> - - Open Link has a <a - href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030123/neth013_1.html">press - release</a> about Virtuoso 3.0: the first commercial product - shipping that uses Mono. - -@item Jan, 20th, 2003: Mono 0.19 released; Screenshots page; Gtk# 0.7 - - Mono 0.19 has been released. Check out the <a - href="archive/mono-0.19">release notes</a> for an overview of - the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>. - There are no major features in this release, mostly bug fixes - and performance improvements. - - We have now a new section <a href="screenshots.html">with - screenshots</a> of various Mono applications. You can see - there the new released Debugger, as well as the work in - progress on the documentation browser. - - <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# 0.7</a> has been <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005222.html">released</a> - -@item Jan, 19th, 2003: Mono Debugger released. - - After six month of extensive development, Martin Baulig has - released the first version of the Mono debugger. The Mono - debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed and - unmanaged applications, support for multiple-threaded - applications and should be relatively easy to port to new - platforms. - - Details of the release are available in <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/005192.html">post</a>. - - The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces. - The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported - by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C - applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2 - flag to gcc). - -@item Jan, 17th, 2003: DB2 provider, MacOS X - - Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client. - - MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the - distribution, and MCS works with it. - - Zoltan has managed to get <a - href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">IKVM</a> (a Java VM - for .NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with - the Mono runtime. - -@item Jan, 13th, 2003: Mono 0.18 released - - Mono 0.18 has been released. Check out the <a - href="archive/mono-0.18">release notes</a> for an overview of - the changes. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>. - -@item Jan 10th, 2003: Mono Weekly News. - - A new issue of the <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/004903.html">Mono - Weekly News</a> has been published. - - Check out the <a href="crypto.html">Crypto status</a> page - that Sebastien has put together. - -@item Jan 3rd, 2003: Glade#, Code Coverage, Apache, MBas, Debugger. - - Rachel has made Glade# use attributes so binding C# widgets to - the designed widgets is now easier than ever. Alp has - improved this to use implicit names as well. - - Martin's Mono debugger now has support for multi-thread - debugging. Special feature: breakpoints can be defined in a - per-thread basis now. - - Daniel López has checked in his Apache module to integrate - Mono and Mono's ASP.NET support as an Apache module. Gonzalo - has folded his new Mono hosting classes into this module (they - are now shared between XSP and mod_mono). You can get the - mod_apache from CVS (module name: mod_mono). - - Mono Basic improvements: Marco has added support for more - statements on the grammar. - - Zoltan has <a href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz2/">posted</a> - his Code Coverage analysis tool for Mono. - -@item Dec 17th, 2002: Mono: Commercial uses. - - <a href="http://www.tipic.com">Tipic</a> today <a - href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=tipic_mono">announced</a> - their work on porting their Instant Messaging Server platform - to run on Mono. - - <a href="http://www.winfessor.com">Winfessor</a> also <a - href="http://www.winfessor.com/press.asp">announced</a> the - availability of their Jabber SDK to run on Mono. - - Also two weeks ago we mentioned <a - href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink Software's</a> <a - href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">announcement</a> - of their product, also using Mono. - -@item Dec 10th, 2002: Gtk# 0.6 released; Mono 0.17 packages for Windows and Debian. - - Mike Kestner <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003961.html">announced - Gtk# 0.6</a>. This new release includes many new features and - bug fixes, and is the perfect companion to the <a - href="archive/mono-0.17">Mono 0.17</a> release. - - Johannes has contributed a Windows-ready package of Mono 0.17, - and its available from our <a - href="download.html">download</a> page. - - Alp Toker has <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Debian packages</a> - -@item Dec 9th, 2002: Mono 0.17 has been released - - Mono 0.17 has been released. Check out the <a - href="archive/mono-0.17">release notes</a> for a more detailed - list. You can get it <a href="download.html">here</a>. - - Many new features as well as plenty of bug fixes. Many new - System.Data providers and a more mature System.Web (ASP.NET) - which can now be hosted in any web server. A simple <a - href="archive/xsp-0.2.tar.gz">test web server</a> to host - asp.net has been released as well. - - This version also integrates Neale's s390 port. - - This release also includes a new exception handling system - that uses the gcc exception information that vastly improves - our internalcall speed (15% faster mcs compilation times). - -@item Dec 8th, 2002: VB.NET, Oracle Provider. - - Marco has got the Mono Basic compiler up to speed (support for - classes, modules, expressions, object creation, method - invocation, local variables, and some statements). The - compiler is based on the work from Rafael Teixeira on MCS. - - Screenshots: <a - href="http://modgb.sourceforge.net/monobasic_snap.png">in - Windows doing Windows.Forms</a> and in Linux doing <a - href="images/gtk-vb.png">VB with Gtk#</a> (courtesy of Alp). - - Daniel Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider to the CVS - repository as well. - -@item Nov 27th, 2002: Press release, tutorials, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, Magazine. - - <a - href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,45454,FF.html">The - Penguin Takes Flight</a>: an article written by Erick - Schonfeld appears on the December issue of <a - href="http://www.business2.com/">Business 2.0</a> magazine. - - <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink</a> and <a - href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> made <a - href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=openlink_mono">joint - announcement</a> on the plans of OpenLink to ship their <a - href="http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/index.htm">Virtuoso</a> - server on Unix using Mono. - - Martin Willemoes's <a href="gnometutorial">GNOME.NET - tutorial</a> is now available from the main Mono site. This - tutorial is a collaborative effort to teach developers how to - use Mono to create Mono applications using <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> - - Dennis Hayes has posted and <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-December/003800.html">update</a> - on the work to get Windows.Forms working on Mono. There is a - new test application that people can use to test their - controls. If you are interested in working on Windows.Forms, - you can participate in the <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms - mailing list</a> - - Brian Ritchie has been working on an ADO.NET <a - href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/adocodegen.aspx">data - layer</a> and an <a - href="http://brianritchie.webhop.net/ideas/appserver.aspx">application - server</a> for Mono. - - Dan Morgan has checked in his Oracle provider, and Tim Coleman - continues to work on the TDS implementation of the data classes. - - The rest of the team has been working on bug fixing in the - runtime, the compiler, and the class libraries. Also, - compilation speed has increased recently by performing a - number of simple optimizations in the compiler. - -@item Nov 19th, 2002: Crypto update; Books; Gtk# Datagrid; .NET ONE Slides - - Sebastien has got DSA and RSA signatures <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003497.html">working</a> - as well as RSA <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003502.html">encryption</a>. - We now distribute Chew Keong TAN's BigInteger classes. - - Brian has contributed a System.Data multiplexor in Mono, it - can be found in the Mono.Data assembly. The details of this - new technology are <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003400.html">here</a>. - It works in Mono and the .NET Framework. - - Larry O'Brien has announced the candidate book for <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003500.html"> - Thinking in C#</a>. The book is Mono-friendly. - - Another book that covers mono (available in German only) is <a - href="http://www.databecker.de/frames.php?PHPSESSD=4948515556575049525459495248485949485348&PHPSESSID=6cc68dbcfbcbacd7b82a984b0700d5d6&t=2"> - here</a>. - - Dan Morgan has implemented a DataGrid widget for Gtk#, you can - see Windows screenshots for it <a - href="images/GtkSharpDataGridScreenshot.png">here</a> and <a - href="images/SqlSharpGtkScreenshot4.png">here</a>. - - Slides from the Mono developers for the .NET ONE conference are available now: - <ul> - <li><a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/DotNetOneKeynote.sxi"> - Mono Keynote presentation</a> - - <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/">Hosting the Mono Runtime</a><br> - The simple embedding of Mono in Perl is available <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/embed/Mono-0.01.tar.gz">here</a> - - <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~lupus/slides/jit/">The Mono JIT compiler</a> - - <li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/Mono_C_Sharp_Overview_1007.sxi"> - Mono C# Compiler Overview</a> - </ul> - - A couple of other presentations from Miguel's trip to Europe - are available <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/slides-europe-nov-2002/">here</a> - in Open Office file format. - -@item Nov 8th, 2002: Mono s390, Database work, new JIT updates. - - Neale Ferguson has contributed <a href="download.html">RPM - packages</a> of Mono for the Linux/s390. - - Tim Coleman posted an <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003329.html">update</a> - on the improvements in the System.Data - - The new JIT engine can run 72 out of our 154 tests for the - virtual machine, and it also got exception support this week. - -@item Nov 1st, 2002: TDS, Crypto, Gtk#, Winforms, bug fixes. - - Tim's SqlClient is <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-November/003161.html">now - capable</a> of communicating with the Microsoft SQL server - using the TDS protocol. A screenshot showing a sample client - running with <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> on - Windows is shown <a - href="images/SqlSharpGtkSceenshot3.png">here</a> - - Sebastien has made all symetric ciphers functional on all - supported modes; All the classes in Security.Cryptography are - present and the X590 certificates are now in too. Jackson has - been working on the Security classes. - - Many bug fixes all over the place: class libraries (Dick, - Piers, Ville, Zoltan, Gonzalo, Dan, Atsushi, Nick, Phillip), - compiler, runtime engine. A big thank goes for everyone who - has been providing bug reports for us to track down. - - Gaurav has been working on multiple WebControls. Gonzalo migrated - the ASP.NET engine to use POST for interaction. - - In the Gtk# land saw the integration of gda, gnome-db and GStreamer - bindings. - - Windows.Forms classes now build on Linux and Windows, check - out the status pages for areas of collaboration. - -@item Oct 24th, 2002: S390 support, XSP/ASP.NET, Win32 contributors, TDS. - - Today Neal Ferguson's support for the IBM S390 was checked - into CVS. - - The XSP processor has been fully integrated into the - System.Web assembly, and Gonzalo has finished the hosting - interfaces in Mono. This means that it is possible to embed - ASP.NET with the same APIs used in Windows, and is possible to - easily embed it with Apache for example. The XSP module has - now become a shell for testing the System.Web classes. - - We are looking for contributors that know Win32 to contribute - to the Windows.Forms implementation. If you want to help - write some controls using the Win32 API, get in touch with our new <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mono-winforms-list@ximian.com - list</a> mailing list. - - Tim's TDS System.Data set of classes can now talk to SQL - servers using the TDS protocol (version 4.2) with - connection pooling. Currently it can connect, run - transactions, update/insert/delete, and read some types. A - data adapter is also coming soon. - -@item Oct 21th, 2002: Crypto, Winforms list, Database, GConf, Debugger. - - Sebastien Poliot has made a lot of progress, he reports that - DES and TripleDES have been fixed; Rijndael and CFB modes - still have problems in some configurations and some areas that - are not supported by the .NET framework. - - Last week we created a new <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list">mailing - list</a> to discuss the Mono Winforms implementation. - - Tim has started a full C# implementation of the TDS protocol - and the providers, and Brian continues his work on his ODBC - binding. - - Rachel Hestilow has also checked in a binding for GConf. This - binding <a - href="http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html">is - unique</a> in that it uses some features in the CLI to support - complex data types, and allows the user to keep only one - representation of the types instead of two (the master types - is defined in CLI-land). Also Property Editors (<a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png">shot</a>) - simplify the creation of user interfaces that bind their - configuration to backend keys, following the <a - href="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/">GNOME - Human Interface Guidelines.</a> - - Martin is now on vacation, but before leaving he produced a - number of documents detailing the state of the debugger. The - major missing feature is full support for debugging unmanaged - applications (it requires dwarf-2 handlers for types). We - will do some polishing of the user interface (<a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/debugger-4.png">new - shot</a>) to expose the existing and rich functionality to the - users and try to release a preview of the debugger at the same - time as Mono 0.17. - -@item Oct 14th, 2002: Crypto, Database work, Debugger, Documentation. - - Brian, Daniel and Rodrigo have been busy working on the ODBC - provider for Mono. Daniel posted some <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002755.html">updates</a>. - Brian posted <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-October/002758.html">details - about the ODBC.NET</a> provider. - - Also Sebastien Pouliot has been improving the various - cryptographic classes in Mono, something that we had not done - in quite some time. We are looking for a way to handle - big-nums. We need either a managed or unmanaged set of - classes for handling large numbers, and some volunteers to - expose this functionality to C# (Either as an internal - assembly, or as a set of P/Invoke, Internal call wrappers). - - Martin has got our debugger to support adding breakpoints at - file/line combos. This was more complex than generic - breakpoints in routines, because these breakpoints are set on - routines that probably have not been JITed just yet. Martin's - focus now is on stabilizing our debugger and aim for a public - release of it. - - We have also imported the ECMA documentation into a separate - module, and with the help from Scott Bronson we will have the - necessary XSLT tools to finish our native documentation - browser for Mono. This together with the work from Adam will - be the foundation for the <a href="classlib-doc.html">Mono - Documentation Tools</a>. - -@item Oct 9th, 2002: Various Mono updates. - - Brian Ritchie, Daniel Morgan, Rodrigo Moya and Ville Palo have - been working on various database providers. The MySQL has - seen a lot of work, and a new ODBC provider is now on CVS and - more extensive regression tests have been checked in. - - Dick Porter is our background hero and keeps fixing the - low-level bugs in the portability layer. Now the Mono handle - daemon should be a lot more robust and will no longer leave IPC - regions. Gonzalo Paniagua has initiated the migration of XSP - into the System.Web class libraries now that we have a - complete HttpRuntime implementation. This means that you are - able to embed the ASP.NET processor into any web server you - want. This also includes support for the system-wide - configuration file `machine.config'. - - Martin Baulig has been busy with the Mono Debugger, you can see how - it looks <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-1.png">here</a> - and <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/debugger-2.png">here</a>. - Now local variables and breakpoints are supported, and we are - working on the UI elements to simplify their use (as seen on - the screenshot). - - <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> has seen a lot of - activity specially as we start to build larger applications. - Vladimir Vukicevic, Kristian Rietveld, Rachel Hestilow, Mike - Kestner and Miguel de Icaza have been busy improving it. - mPhoto which is a Photo management application for Mono and - Gtk# is seen <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/mphoto-2.jpg">here</a>. - - Chris Toshok the man behind LDAP in Evolution continues to - work on the Mono.LDAP# implementation. - - Dietmar Maurer and Paolo Molaro are still busy working on our - new optimized JIT/ATC engine and are making great progress. - The code base has been designed to ease the implementation of - more advanced compiler optimizations, and optimizations can be - chosen individually so they can be tuned for a particular - processor, or use profile-based information to improve the - performance. - -@item Oct 1st, 2002: Mono 0.16 released; Debugger updates. - - Mono 0.16 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a - href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a - href="archive/mono-0.16">here</a>. - - Martin's debugger can debug both managed and unmanaged code. - Recently Martin added support for locals, parameters, and - breakpoints on top of the existing infrastructure (his - debugger supported instruction-level and source-code level - single-stepping). - -@item Sep 19th, 2002: Mono Survey. - - Help us plan for the future of Mono by filing out the <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/monosurvey">First Mono - Survey</a> - -@item Sep 17th, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame: Sergey Chaban - - The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> - continues to show our appreciation to the excellent - contributors that made <b>mono::</b> a successful free - software project. - - This time the Hall of Fame welcomes Sergey Chaban. Sergey has - been a long time contributor to the project, from the early - work on the class libraries that were critical to Mono's - origin: every time you use a Hashtable in Mono, it runs - Sergey's code, to the low-level optimizations on the JIT - engine and to his work on ILASM and the PEToolkit. - - -@item Sep 16th, 2002: Documentation Tools, ILASM, Debugger, Mono LDAP, Winforms - - Adam Treat has started moving the documentation universe again. We - have a new strategy to document our APIs (given that we have - chosen <a href="classlib-doc.html">not to document the code - inline</a>). This includes the use of a master reference file - that will hold the entry points to document. All master files - for our assemblies have been checked into CVS now. - - Sergey Chaban's Mono.PEToolkit and ILASM tools have been - checked into CVS. Although ILASM is old and will soon be - updated, we wanted to get the build issues sorted out. - - Martin Baulig's Mono Debugger is still on its early stages, - but you can run and run step by step your C# code and C code - (including the Mono runtime). Dwarf-2 is required to compile - your code. The regular step, step-into, and assembly-level - step and step-into are supported. And comes with a Gtk# - UI. The debugger is written mostly in C# with some C glue - code. Most of the work is on the engine, we will be working - on making a good UI in the future. - - Chris Toshok of the Hungry Programmer's fame has checked in - Mono.Directory.LDAP, a C# wrapper for the LDAP libraries. - This is the substrate for implementing the - System.DirectoryServices assembly. - - Andrew has also continued with some of the cryptographic - classes implementation. - - After much public debate, we have chosen a new <a - href="winforms.html">strategy to implement winforms</a>. - Implementing a Gtk, Qt or Aqua based version of Winforms was - going to be almost as complex as implementing Wine itself. So - the new strategy is to only roll out a WineLib-based - implementation. - -@item Sep 4th, 2002: .NET One 2002 Program available - - The <a - href="http://www.sigs-datacom.de/sd/kongresse/dotnet_2002/index.htm">.NET - ONE 2002</a> conference in Frankfurt is now available. Paolo - will be talking about the Mono JIT and embedding the Mono - runtime in your Windows and Linux applications. Mike Kestner - will talk about <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> and - the automatic binding generator used by Gtk# and Miguel will - be talking about the Mono project on Monday's keynote and on - the Mono C# compiler on Tuesday. - -@item Sep 3rd, 2002: Apache integration - - <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-September/001862.html">Sterling</a> - announced an Apache module that hosts - Mono, and allows CIL code to run from within Apache, giving the - module access to the Apache runtime. This uses the Mono embedding - API. - -@item Aug 24th, 2002: Gtk# 0.4 released - - Shortly after <a href="download.html">Mono 0.15</a> was - released a fresh version of <a - href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> was <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001702.html">announced</a>. - -@item Aug 23rd, 2002: Mono 0.15 released - - Mono 0.15 has been released. Source and RPMs are <a - href="download.html">available</a>. The release notes are <a - href="archive/mono-0.15">here</a> - -@item Aug 21th, 2002: Portable.NET encodings integrated into Mono. - - Rhys Weatherley has contributed the Portable.NET encoders to - the Mono class libraries. This is a great step towards - cooperation between these projects. Thanks to Paolo for doing the - merger on our side. - - His encoders are more complete than the iconv-based approach - that mono used, which was unreliable under certain - circumstances. - -@item Aug 20th, 2002: Remoting work, Resources, SPARC checkins, ADO.NET - - <b>San Francisco</b>: August 14th. Linux World Expo. - - Mark Crichton has checked in his patches to get the SPARC port - on par with the PPC port. - - Dick has checked-in the resource reader and resource writers - to the class libraries, and Dietmar checked in the C# support - code for the remoting infrastructure. - - More work on System.Data: the LibGDA (our OleDB backend) based - providers are quickly maturing, and recently they executed - their first query. - -@item Aug 13th, 2002: MCS news, Gtk# progress, Windows.Forms, ADO.NET - - Martin Baulig has been fixing all the known bugs in the C# - compiler and now has moved into improving the compilation - speed and the generated code quality of MCS. Today we got a - 50% speedup in the bootstrap of MCS going from 24 seconds to 12 seconds. - - Gtk# has been making a lot of progress, some interesting - corner cases are now supported:, you can now create canvas items as - well as using the tree widget. Here is a shot of <a - href="images/mocil.png">MonoCIL</a>. - - On the runtime front, focus has been on improving remoting - support, exception handling, as well as completing the support - for structure marshaling. - - Patrik is also back in action: the HttpRuntime infrastructure - is rapidly improving, and Gonzalo is working into moving XSP - into our main class library and providing the missing pieces - to integrate with Patrik's code. - - Dennis and his team are working on a WineLib-based - implementation of Windows Forms to guarantee that the corner - cases of Windows.Forms can be handled, and we are back on track again. - - A lot more work on the ADO.NET and WebServices has also been - checked into CVS. - -@item Aug 1st, 2002: Mono Hackers Hall of Fame - - The <a href="hackers.html">Mono Hackers Hall Of Fame</a> has been started - to show our appreciation to the excellent contributors that made <b>mono::</b> - a successful free software project. - - The first, deserved, entry goes to - Nick Drochak, who joined us in the first days of Mono and built the testing - infrastructure for the C# assemblies, fixed tons of bugs and even adventured - 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: - - <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 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-August/001234.html">posted - an update</a> 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/001117.html">announced</a> - 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. - - <b>Mono 0.13 has been released!</b> (details <a - href="archive/mono-0.13">here</a>). Get - your sources for the <a - href="archive/mono-0.13.tar.gz">runtime</a> and - <a href="archive/mcs-0.13.tar.gz">compiler and class libraries</a>. - <p> - Alp made Debian packages and they are <a - href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a>. Cristophe made - packages for Red Hat and they are <a - href="http://mono.baselabs.org/software">here</a>. - And Windows packages have been <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">contributed</a> - -@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 <a - href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-linux/">here</a>. - Also the <a - href="http://mono.es.gnome.org/tutoriales/mono-puf/">FAQ</a> - 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000916.html">here</a>. - -@item Jul 17th, 2002 - - The first documentary on Ximian's development team is now - available online, from young director <a - href="mailto:erik.pukinskis@uconn.edu">Erik Pukinskis</a>: <a - href="http://www.ximian.com/devzone/projects/codemonkey.html">"Code - Monkey At Work"</a>. - - A Tutorial on getting Mono installed from sources is now <a - href="http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/x70.html">online</a>. - - 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. - - * 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 resulting 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 Jul 9th, 2002 - - Ajay was the first to notice <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-July/000641.html"> - Mono's first birthday</a>. - - In a year, we have achieved plenty: - <ul> - * 94 contributors with CVS access (84 non-Ximian developers). - * A complete CLI implementation: - <ul> - <li> A fast and performing x86 JIT engine (inlining, constant propagation). - <li> An interpreter for other systems (PPC, Sparc, StrongArm). - </ul> - * A self-hosting C# compiler, which can compile its class libraries. - * 37,140 file changes in CVS. - * 92,000 lines of C code. - * 437,000 lines of C# code (compiler, classes, tests) - * A working core for ASP.NET and ADO.NET. - * Major subsystems are functional: RegularExpressions, - System.XML, XML.Schema, System.Data, System.Web. - * The Gtk# project, which is maturing rapidly. - </ul> - - 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 <a - href="http://www.atoker.com/phonic/">Phonic</a>, 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 - <a href="http://www.webbit2001.org/event/eventview/534/">here</a> - - You can also see a trip report from the Gnome in the South trip: - <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/sur.html">here</a> - - 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 <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 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 <a href="http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html">South-America trip</a> - 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000380.html">contributed</a> - 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 <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">Gtk# demo - applications</a> (<a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageViewer.png">screen - shot</a>, <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono/img/ImageBrowser.png">another</a>) - - Rachel also got the beginning of Gnome bindings (<a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gnome-hello.png">screenshot</a>). - She also got some <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~tvgm/gtk-sharp-docs/">documentation</a> - 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000345.html">list - of pending issues</a> which are now very small. - - Steam is picking up in <a - href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk#</a> 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 <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">Alp Toker's - website</a>. - - New libgc RPMS for Redhat 7.3 are available on <a href=" - http://java.thn.htu.se/~toor/">Richard Torkar's site</a>. - -@item Jun 10, 2002 - - Ajay <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-June/000128.html">announced</a> - today that the reading code for XmlSchemas is almost complete. - -@item Jun 7, 2002 - - <b>Mono 0.12 is out!</b> More classes! More working code! - Better compiler! Faster runtime! Less bugs! - - You can get it <a - href="download.html#jun-7">Here</a> (quick links: <a - href="archive/mono-0.12.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a - href="archive/mcs-0.12.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>). - -@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). - - <a href="ado-net.html">ADO support</a>: 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 <a href="index.rss">RSS feed</a> is now available for the - Mono news. I find it surprising that there are so many tools - that process this data. - - Binaries for <a href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-May/003953.html">has - checked in</a> 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 - - <a href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/">MonoLogo</a> runs - on the Mono runtime. This <a - href="http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png">screenshot</a> shows - MonoLogo running Gtk#. - -@item May 21, 2002 - - Martin has improved the debugging infrastructure in Mono, now - it is possible to get <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005717.html">line - number</a> information on stack traces. - -@item May 20, 2002 - - XSP <a href="asp-net">our ASP.NET</a> .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 <a href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET - implementation</a> 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005489.html">about - it</a> - -@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 <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a> - - Thanks goes to Chris, Daniel, Duncan, Gonzalo, Miguel, Rodrigo, Tim, - and others for these bits. - -@item May 4th, 2002 - - Rodrigo Moya announced <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-May/005366.html">new - LibGDA</a>: 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 <a - href="ado-net.html">ADO.NET implementation plans</a> - - 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 <a href="http://monologo.sf.net">MonoLogo compiler</a> 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 <a - href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> front: <a - href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/menu.png">Menu - support</a>, Mike <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-May/000064.html">tells - the story</a> - -@item May 1st, 2002 - - Daily packages for <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> are available - <a href="http://www.atoker.com/mono/">here</a> - -@item Apr 26, 2002 - - Binary packages of Mono 0.11 are available for <a - href="http://www.superin.formativ.net/mono/mono.htm">Windows</a> - (Thanks to Johannes Roith) and for - <a - href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">Linux</a> (thanks - to BaseLabs). - -@item Apr 24, 2002 - - <b>Mono 0.11 is out!</b> 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 <a href="archive/mono-0.11">Release Notes</a> - are available. - - You can get it <a - href="download.html#apr-24">Here</a> (quick links: <a - href="archive/mono-0.11.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a - href="archive/mcs-0.11.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>). - -@item Apr 23, 2002 - - SharpDevelop 0.88a <a href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD">is out!</a> - - Congratulations to the developers behind SharpDevelop for - their new release. - -@item Apr 20, 2002 - - Some updates from the hacking lines: - - <b>The web:</b> Patrik Torstensson last week contributed the - http runtime support and started work on thread pools. This - is part of the ASP.NET support. - - <b>Docs:</b> John Barnette, John Sohn and Adam Treat have been - hacking on MonoDoc. - - <b>ADO.NET:</b> Daniel Morgan and Rodrigo Moya have been - working on the <a href="ado-net">ADO.NET</a> 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 <a - href="mailing-lists.html">mono-patches</a> for all the - goodies. - - <b>Optimizations:</b> 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. - - <b>Bug fixing:</b> 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-April/000048.html">released</a> - - Binaries for the Mono Regression Test Suite are <a - href="archive/mono-tests.tar.gz">available</a> for - people porting the Mono Runtime to new platforms. - -@item Apr 6, 2002 - - <a href="http://www.dotnetremoting.cc/book/AdvancedDotNetRemoting.asp"> - Advanced .NET Remoting</a> 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 - - <b>Mono 0.10 is out!</b> 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 <a href="archive/mono-0.10">Release Notes</a> - are available. - - You can get it <a - href="download.html#mar-27">Here</a> (quick links: <a - href="archive/mono-0.10.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a - href="archive/mcs-0.10.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>). - -@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. - - <a href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net">Gtk#</a> runs <a - href="http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/gtk-hello-world.png">Hello - World</a>. Mike posted some <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-March/000034.html">details.</a> - - -@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 <a href="class-status.html">class status</a>, 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-March/003726.html">MCS - compiler compiling itself on Linux</a> - 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 <a href="http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?hidenonreadable=1&f=u&logsort=date&sortby=file&hideattic=1&cvsroot=Mono">can be browsed</a> - - 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 <a href="class-status.html">class - status</a> page again, with even more information available. - - The C# compiler has full constant folding implemented now and Ravi - killed bugs of bugs in the <a href="http://bugzilla.ximian.com/buglist.cgi?product=Mono%2FClass+Libraries&product=Mono%2FMCS&product=Mono%2FRuntime&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&keywords=&keywords_type=anywords&op_sys_details=&op_sys_details_type=substring&version_details=&version_details_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&order=%27Importance%27&form_name=query">Mono Bug List</a> - -@item Mar 1, 2002 - - RPMs of Mono 0.9 are available at <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/#download">mono.baselabs.com</a> - -@item Feb 28, 2002 - - <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003464.html">Christophe</a> - has setup his <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org">First Steps in Mono</a> 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 <a href="http://mono.baselabs.org/index.php/software/">mono.baselabs.org</a> - -@item Feb 27, 2002 - - New <a href="class-status.html">class status</a> 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003266.html">ways - you can help</a> if you do not have Windows right now. Sergey followed up with - <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/003268.html">his</a> - 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 - - <b>Mono 0.9 has been released!</b> - - A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has - been packaged for your download pleasure. The <a - href="archive/mono-0.9">Release Notes</a> - - You can get it <a - href="download.html#feb-22">Here</a> (quick links: <a - href="archive/mono-0.9.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a - href="archive/mcs-0.9.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>). - -@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 <a href="download.html">available</a>. 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 <a href="http://people.debian.org/~lupus/mono/">Mono Looks Like?</a> - -@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 <a - href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> conference in Brussels. - -@item Feb 11, 2002 - - <b>Mono 0.8 has been released!</b> - - A new version of the runtime, compiler and class libraries has - been packaged for your download pleasure. - - You can get it <a - href="download.html#feb-11">Here</a> (quick links: <a - href="archive/mono-0.8.tar.gz">runtime</a> and <a - href="archive/mcs-0.8.tar.gz">compiler/classes</a>) - -@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 <a - href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-February/msg00031.html">GNOME - and Mono</a>. - - 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 <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002911.html">enabling - ASP.NET</a> on Mono. - - Paolo also <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002944.html"> - posted a list of pending tasks</a> to enable the compiler to run on Linux - -@item Feb 10, 2002 - - Mike Kestner has posted an <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-February/000024.html">Update - on his Gtk#</a> activities. - -@item Feb 4, 2002 - - Adam has done <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-February/002808.html">Qt - bindings</a> for .NET. Adam is cool. - -@item Jan 29, 2002 - - Dan Lewis has contributed a major missing set of classes to - Mono: <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002745.html"> - System.Text.RegularExpressions</a>. - - 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 - <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT X11</a> 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 <a - href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/mono_partners.html">Press - Release</a> - - Press coverage: <a - href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-823734.html">CNet</a>, <a - href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50037-2,00.html">Wired</a>, - <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/28/020128hnopennet.xml">InfoWorld</a>, - <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/27/2232231">NewsForge</a>. - -@item Jan 23, 2002 - - New mailing list: <a href="mailto:mono-patches-request@ximian.com">mono-patches@ximian.com</a>. - 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 - <a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/dick-mis-server.png">screenshot</a> - - 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 <a href= - "http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html"> - here</a> - - 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# <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2002-January/000021.html"><i>New - year, new direction</i></a>. - - 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 <a - href="snapshots">snapshot</a> or getting your sources from our - <a href="anoncvs.html">Anonymous CVS server</a>. - -@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 <a href="snapshots">latest Mono</a> - - 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 <a href="http://www.hispalinux.es">HispaLinux</a> 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 - -<blockquote> - Mike Kestner has posted an <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000015.html">update</a> - on Gtk# development. -</blockquote> - -@item Nov 14, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Paolo today got the Mono C# compiler running <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-November/001941.html">on - Linux</a>. 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: -<ul> - * The C# compiler is being worked on and can compile - many programs now (our test suite at this point is - made up of 40 tests). - - * The class libraries need to be mature enough to support - the compiler, particularly System.Reflection.Emit (which is - what Paolo has been working on lately). - - The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the - .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b> - - * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual - compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes. -</ul> - - At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will - replace our interpreter in production. -</blockquote> - -@item Nov 12, 2001 - -<blockquote> - 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. -</blockquote> - -@item Nov 8, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now. - - Full array support is not complete, but moving along. -</blockquote> - -@item Nov 5, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33 - tests running now. -</blockquote> - -@item Nov 4, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Mike Kestner, main Gtk# contributor has posted a very interesting <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gtk-sharp-list/2001-November/000013.html"> - update</a> 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. -</blockquote> - -@item Nov 3, 2001 - -<blockquote> - 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). -</blockquote> - -@item Nov 1, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Ravi committed the caller-side method selection of methods with - variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing - the array handling support. -</blockquote> - -@item Oct 27, 2001 - -<blockquote> - 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. -</blockquote> - -@item Oct 18, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Reworking expressions to support cleanly indexers and - properties. <a href="http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3">11 - days</a> until Evolution 1.0 ships. - - Ximian users around the world <!--a - href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with - recent C# compiler progress. -</blockquote> - -@item Oct 17, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Delegate support has been checked into the compiler - (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented. -</blockquote> - -@item Oct 15, 2001 - -<blockquote> - 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. -</blockquote> - -@item Oct 5, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Sergey has released his first version of the <b>ilasm</b> - assembler written in C#. You can get it from his web page: - <a - href="http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua">http://mono.eurosoft.od.ua</a>. - - The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This - component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop - eventually. -</blockquote> - -@item Oct 4, 2001 - -<blockquote> - 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. -</blockquote> - -@item Sep 28, 2001 - -<blockquote> - <a - href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp - Develop 0.80</a> was released today. -</blockquote> - -@item Sep 26, 2001 - -<blockquote> - 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). -</blockquote> - -@item Sep 21, 2001 - -<blockquote> - 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 -</blockquote> - -@item Sep 19, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting - Mono</a> to other architectures. -</blockquote> - -@item Sep 18, 2001 - -<blockquote> - <A a href="download.html#sep-18">Mono 0.7</a> has been - released (runtime engine, class libraries - and C# compiler). Check the <a href="archive/mono-0.7">Mono - 0.7 announcement</a> for details -</blockquote> - -@item Sep 17, 2001 - -<blockquote> - 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 <a href="src/HelloWorld.cs">here</a> - - Gtk-sharp should be available on the next snapshot set. -</blockquote> - -@item Sep 10, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most - importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar. -</blockquote> - - -@item Sep 5, 2001 - -<blockquote> - The MCS compiler <b>can compile the sample Hello World</b> - application and generate a Windows/CIL executable that runs! - - This executable runs with the Mono Interpreter of course (see - August 28) -</blockquote> - -@item Sep 4, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture - independent instruction selector for the JIT engine. -</blockquote> - -@item Aug 28, 2001 - -<blockquote> - <b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> 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! -</blockquote> - -@item Aug 23, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Lloyd Dupont has announced his OpenGL bindings for C#, they - are available here: <a - href="http://csgl.sourceforge.net">http://csgl.sourceforge.net</a> -</blockquote> - -@item Aug 22, 2001 - -<blockquote> - New version of the Mono Runtime, Compiler and Classes has been - <a - href="download.html#august-22">released.</a> Check the <a - href="archive/mono-0.6">0.6 announcement</a>. -</blockquote> - -@item Aug 20, 2001 - -<blockquote> - A new <a href="contributing.html#compile-service">Compilation - service</a> has been made available by Derek to allow people - without access to the <a - href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true">.NET SDK</a> -</blockquote> - -@item Aug 3, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will - run every night at 10pm Boston time. -</blockquote> - -@item Jul 29, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Mono Runtime 0.5 has been <a - href="download.html#july-29">released.</a> Check the <a - href="archive/mono-0.5">release notes</a> -</blockquote> - -@item Jul 25, 2001 - -<blockquote> - The slides for <A href="Presentations/O-Reilly">my - presentation</a> at <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly - Open Source Software Convention</a> -</blockquote> - -@item Jul 22, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a - href="archive/mcs-22">MCS 22-July Release Notes</a>. You can - get the new class libraries from <a - href="download.html#july-22">here</a> -</blockquote> - -@item Jul 19, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a - href="archive/mcs-19">MCS 19-July Release Notes</a>. You can - get the new class libraries from <a - href="download.html#july-19">here</a> -</blockquote> - -@item Jul 17, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Another release of the class libraries is out, check the <a - href="archive/mcs-17">MCS 17-July Release Notes</a>. You can - get the new class libraries from <a - href="download.html#july-17">here</a> - - Do not forget to check out the updated <a href="faq.html">FAQ</a>. - - 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. -</blockquote> - -@item Jul 15, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Another release of Mono is out, check the <a - href="archive/mono-0.4">Mono 0.4 Release Notes</a>. Get it <a - href="download.html#july-15">here</a>. -</blockquote> - -@item Jul 14, 2001 - -<blockquote> - A <a - href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-July/000399.html">new - release</a> of the - runtime, compiler and classes has been made. Get it <a href="download.html#july-14">here</a> -</blockquote> - -@item Jul 12, 2001 - -<blockquote> - I keep getting questions about my opinion on Passport, even when - Mono has <b>nothing</b> to do with it. I finally <a - href="passport.html">wrote something.</a> -</blockquote> - -@item Jul 9, 2001 - -<blockquote> - Project launched. -</blockquote> - -@item O'Reilly - -<blockquote> - Brian posted a story on <a - href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a> -</blockquote> diff --git a/doc/web/htmlify b/doc/web/htmlify index e4e61961f3b..46fe4ce4212 100644 --- a/doc/web/htmlify +++ b/doc/web/htmlify @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ while (<>){ if (/^\* (.*)$/){ print "<h1>$1</h1>\n"; } elsif (/^\*\* (.*)$/) { - print "<h2>$1</h2>\n"; + print "<h3>$1</h3>\n"; } elsif (/^\*\*\* (.*)$/) { print "<h3>$1</h3>\n"; } elsif (/^\*\*\*\* (.*)$/) { @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ while (<>){ $name = $link = $1; $link =~ s/ //g; print "<a name=\"$link\">\n"; - print "<h2>$name</h2>\n"; + print "<h3>$name</h3>\n"; } elsif (/^Q: (.*)$/){ print "<p><a name=\"q$q\"></a><b>Question $q:</b> $1\n"; $q++; |