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diff --git a/web/index b/web/index index b67e5f3dec3..52a8ced8b09 100644 --- a/web/index +++ b/web/index @@ -1,70 +1,51 @@ +<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0"; URL=http://www.mono-project.com/"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="index.rss"/> -<table> - <tr> - <td> - <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 (the CLR) and a set of <a - href="class-library.html">class libraries</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> - - 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 - - You can contact the team at: <a - href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a> - </td> - <td> - <table border=1> + + <table align="right" border=1 padding=0 width=25%> + <tr> + <td colspan="2" bgcolor=lightgrey> + <b><center>Mono Status</center></b> + </td> + </tr> <tr> <td> - <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler</a></b> + <b><a href="c-sharp.html">C# Compiler:</a></b> </td> <td> - <b>Self hosting on Linux</b><br> - Self hosting on .NET. + Self hosting on Linux and .NET </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - <b>JIT</b> + <b>JIT:</b> </td> <td> - Linux/x86 working. + Linux/x86<br> + Solaris/SPARC<br> + PowerPC: MacOS and Linux.<br> + S390: Linux. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> - <b>Interpreter</b> + <b>Interpreter:</b> </td> <td> - Working:<br> - Linux/x86, Linux/PPC<br> - In progress: StrongARM, SPARC. + 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> <b><a href="class-status.html">Classes</a></b> </td> <td> - Corlib is self hosting. + All assemblies compile. </td> </tr> <tr> @@ -75,1150 +56,420 @@ <a href="index.rss"><img src="images/xml.gif"></a> </td> </tr> - </table> - </td> - </tr> -</table> - -@item Jun 24, 2002 - - Duncan has written a few sample <a - href="http://primates.ximian.com/~duncan/Mono">gtk# demo apps</a>.. - -@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 commited 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. + <tr> + <td colspan="2" bgcolor=lightgrey> + <b><center>In the news</center></b> + </td> + </tr> - You can find more information - at <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html">The Mono ADO-NET Page</a> + <tr> + <td> + <b>Beta 1 Press Coverage</b> + </td> + <td> + <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target="blank">May 2004</a>: Mono Beta 1 rallies the press + </td> + </tr> + <tr> - 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 + <td> + <b>Linux Planet</b> + </td> + <td> + <a href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/5375/4/">May 3rd, 2004</a>: And then there's Mono + </td> + </tr> - 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). + <tr> + <td> + <b>DevChannel</b> + </td> + <td> + <a href="http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/04/21/169234.shtml?tid=46">Apr 26th, 2004</a>: What is Mono and why should you care ? + </td> +</tr><tr> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + <img src="images/2003osdirwinnerbadge.gif"> + </td> + <td> + <a href="http://osdir.com/Article198.phtml">Dec 19th, 2003</a>: Editor's Choice Award. + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + <img src="images/netmagazine.png"> + </td> + <td> + + <a href="http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_TE/magazine/columns/trends">May 31st, 2003</a>: CLI integration. + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + <img src="images/infoworld.png"> + </td> + <td> + <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> + <img src="images/infoworld.png"> + </td> + <td> + <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">Mar 14th, 2003</a>: Whither Mono? + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + <img src="images/b2.png"> + </td> + <td> + <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/22/HNmono_1.html">Dec, 2002</a>: The Penguin takes flight. + </td> + </tr> + </table> + + +<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> + +@item Jun 30th, 2004: Mono 1.0 + + <table> + <tr> + <td> + <img + src="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0/mono1.gif"></td> + <td> + <b>Mono 1.0 has been released!</b><br/> + + <p>Be the first kid in your block to install the + <i>it-took-us-three-years-but-we-did-it</i> development platform. + + <p>Read the <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.0/index.html">release notes</a> + or <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/download.html">download it</a></p> + </td> + </tr> + </table> - 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 temporarly 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 colib 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 comming 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 Jun 23rd, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes John Luke, Dan Morgan and Tim Coleman. + + The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/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. + + John Luke, Dan Morgan and Tim Coleman are now part of the Mono + Hackers Hall of Fame. + +@item Jun 15th, 2004: Mono Beta 3 has been released + + <table> + <tr> + <td> + <img + src="http://www.go-mono.com/images/beta3.gif"></td> + <td> + Our third beta has been released. + + Packages and source code are available <a + href="download.html">on our download</a> page. + </td> + </tr> + </table> -@item Nov 30, 2001 +@item Jun 1st, 2004: Mono Beta 2 has been released + + <table> + <tr> + <td> +</td> + <td>Mono Beta 2 has been released. See our <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta2/beta2.html">Release + Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page. + </td> + </tr> + </table> - All tests from the mono runtime work with the JIT engine now - (Dietmar). +@item May 17th, 2004: Huge press response for Mono 1.0 Beta 1 + + Two weeks after the release of Mono 1.0 Beta 1, we take a + look at the <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/beta1-press.html" target='_blank'>press coverage</a> that followed the + beta release. + +@item May 10th, 2004: The Mono Hackers Hall of Fame welcomes Todd Berman + + The <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/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. + + Todd Berman is a steady contributor to Mono. He has worked + everywhere: from the Class Libraries, to the early implementation of + the GAC and most recently has lead the effort to develop, port and + maintain MonoDevelop an IDE for the Mono environment. His help has + been key to the development of Mono. + +@item May 4th, 2004: Mono Beta 1 available + + <table> + <tr> + <td> + <img + src="http://www.go-mono.com/images/beta1-anim.gif"></td> + <td>Mono Beta 1 has been released. See our <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/beta1/beta1.html">Release + Notes</a>, or go directly to the <a href="download.html">download</a> page. + </td> + </tr> + </table> - Recursive enumeration definition in the C# compiler are - working now (Ravi). +@item May 2nd, 2004: mDnsResponder.Net; Global Assembly Cache. - More work on the Web classes (Gaurav). + Brady Anderson has released the first version of his <a href= + "http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mdnsresponder">multicast + DNS responder</a> written in C# for the Mono and .NET + platforms. This is the foundation for implementing + rendezvous-like functionality in your applications. -@item Nov 28, 2001 + The tree has started to stabilize after all the changes last + week to integrate the Global Assembly Cache work that Jackson, + Sebastien, Todd and all the volunteers helped us deploy. - JIT land: Paolo got GDB support into the JIT engine while - Dietmar added exceptions support to it. +@item Apr 22nd, 2004: XSP 0.12 released. - The C# compiler supports all array initializations now, and the - switch statement as well as fixing many existing bugs. Many - new more tests. + A new release of XSP is available. It fixes a bug that made Web Services + unusable from client proxies. You can download it from <a + href="/archive/xsp-0.12.tar.gz">here</a>. - 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). +@item Apr 21st, 2004: XSP 0.11 and mod_mono 0.8 released. - The compiler currently requires 103 classes from the - .NET runtime (you can get the list by running: <b>monodis --typeref mcs.exe</b> + Gonzalo has made new releases of XSP and mod_mono (The ASP.NET + hosting service for Mono). - * The interpreter should be mature enough to run the actual - compiler byte codes and the corlib bytecodes. -</ul> + Check the XSP/mod_mono <a href="archive/xsp-0.10.html"> + Release Notes</a> to see what is new and to obtain the source + packages. - At the same time, Dietmar is working on the JIT engine which will - replace our interpreter in production. -</blockquote> +@item Apr 20, 2004: S390 port; Interpreted Updated; Identity classes; System.Drawing; Mono Debugger. -@item Nov 12, 2001 + Neale who originally wrote the S390 interpreter support for + Mono has checked into CVS his port of the S390 JIT engine. + Now, if we could only have one of those in our living room. -<blockquote> - Dietmar got value types working on the JIT engine. Sean has - got assembly loading in the runtime (required for NUnit). + Bernie has checked into CVS a new interpreter for the Mono + runtime. This new interpreter translates the CIL opcodes into + a new intermediate representation. The new IL representation + avoids doing costly lookups during interpretation which means that the + interpreter is a lot faster now. - More progress on enumerations and attributes from Ravi. + Performance wise, the new interpreter is three times faster + than the old one when doing a compiler bootstrap. - Nick keeps working on improving our class libraries. -</blockquote> + Sebastien has recently completed the identity classes in the + Mono Runtime, you can see more details on his <a + href="http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/poupou.html">blog</a> -@item Nov 8, 2001 + New progress on the GDI+ front: Jordi has completed the region + code; Ravindra the various brushes that we must support; + Sanjay the Icon and BMP loaders (with Mark) and Vladimir has + contributed various codecs and a new fresh implementation of + Image.LockBits. -<blockquote> - Enumerations, array access and attributes for the C# compiler are into the CVS now. + Lluis and Atsushi in the meantime has been in charge of + completing various pending items from our class libraries: + basically an API audit of the things missing for the Mono 1.0 + release, small but important things. - Full array support is not complete, but moving along. -</blockquote> + Martin has replaced the old command-line language in the + debugger with our home-grown "Command Line" language, a + TCL-like command line language that we built for it (its a + tiny .NETized Tcl-like language). The interaction process is + a lot smoother than it used to be and we are focusing on the + usability of the command line language to improve the + debugging experience. -@item Nov 5, 2001 +@item Apr 02, 2004: Mono C# Compiler gets CLS support; Basic Runtime Contribution from Mainsoft. -<blockquote> - Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33 - tests running now. -</blockquote> + Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding + support to the C# compiler to support the various checks required + by the Common Language Specification (CLS). -@item Nov 4, 2001 + In the past the C# compiler was unable to flag any problems + related to the creation of cross-language libraries. Today + with this patch the compiler will properly flag errors in CLS + compliance. Tests for all of the errors have also been + included on CVS. -<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#. + <a href="http://www.mainsoft.com">Mainsoft</a> has contributed + an implementation of their Basic runtime to the project. The + runtime they wrote is written in Java and we are translating + this into C# code. The code will reach CVS within the next + few weeks. - Ravi commited the initial support for Attributes in the - compiler. + Mainsoft also contributed an extensive regression test suite + for the Basic runtime, a port of the NIST XML tests and their + own in-house developed XML tests. - Many HTML Controls from Leen checked into CVS. +@item Mar 31st, 2004: Gtk# 0.18, MonoDoc 0.13, MonoDevelop 0.2 released - 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> + New versions of Gtk# and MonoDoc have been released. -@item Nov 3, 2001 + Gtk# is available from <a + href="http://gtk-sharp.sf.net">Gtk# home page</a> and MonoDoc 0.13 + is available from our <a href="download.html">download</a> + page. -<blockquote> - Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak. + Gtk# now features [ConnectBefore] attribute for hooking up + signals; An automake/autoconf setup; the System.Drawing + dependency has been dropped and many more docs. - Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited the flow analysis code - for the JITer. + And <a href="http://www.monodevelop.com/">MonoDevelop 0.2</a> + has been released. - A lot of work has been going into the WebControls by Gaurav (4 - new controls plus improved and bug fixed base classes). -</blockquote> +@item Mar 18th, 2004: Mono 0.31 has been released -@item Nov 1, 2001 + We have released version 0.31 of Mono. All the new features + and improvements are described in our <a + href="archive/mono-0.31.html">Mono 0.31 Release Notes</a>. -<blockquote> - Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with - variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing - the array handling support. -</blockquote> + You can download Mono 0.31 packages using Red Carpet, or pick + the individual packages from our <a + href="download.html">download</a> page. -@item Oct 27, 2001 +@item Mar 15th, 2004: Async IO lands on Mono. -<blockquote> - Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited this - morning. + Gonzalo has completed the implementation of Async I/O for Mono + using the kernel aio_* interfaces. If your operating system supports + the aio_ POSIX interface, the FileStream methods that + expose asynchronous methods will use this facility instead of + emulating it with threads as we have done in the past. - Some large recent developments: + We had this request come to us from various people in the + past, and we are now looking for your help to test and debug + this. - 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). +@item Mar 11th, 2004: Mono JIT ported to SPARC. - Derek Holden commited 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. + Zoltan Varga announced today that the SPARC port of the Mono + JIT engine has been completed. Congratulations to Zoltan for + this amazing development. - 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). +@item Feb 26th, 2004: Agenda: Mono Meeting in Boston. - 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. + The agenda for the Mono Meeting is now available: <a + href="http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/MonoMeet.html">Mono Meeting + Agenda</a> - Mike Kestner is busy working on Gtk# which is now using the - .defs files to quickly wrap the API. -</blockquote> +@item Feb 24th, 2004: Mono Meeting in Boston. -@item Oct 18, 2001 + On March 5th-6th (Friday and Saturday) there will be an + open-house meeting for people interested in Mono to get + together with the Mono developers at the Novell offices in + in Cambridge Massachusetts (<a + href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/contact/">directions</a>). -<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. + The whole Novell Mono team will be here (Atsushi Enomoto, Dick + Porter, Duncan Mak, Erik Dasque, Gonzalo Paniagua, Jackson + Harper, Jordi Mas, Lluis Sanches, Manjula, Martin Baulig, + Miguel de Icaza, Mike Kestner, Paolo Molaro, Peter Bartok, + Sebastien Pouliot, Sachin Kumar) and hopefully Joe Shaw, Nat + Friedman, Peter Williams and Ravi Pratap will be joining us as + well. Expect to see Todd Berman from MonoDevelop as well. - Ximian users around the world <!--a - href="http://www.bez.it/IMAGES/nora.jpg"-->rejoice<!--/a--> with - recent C# compiler progress. -</blockquote> + If you are coming, please notify <a + href="mailto:edasque@ximian.com">edasque@ximian.com</a> about it, so + we can add you to the security list, and use the `open house + confirmation' subject in your email. -@item Oct 17, 2001 +@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono 0.30.1 released -<blockquote> - Delegate support has been checked into the compiler - (definition and invocation); break/continue implemented. -</blockquote> + We have released a small bug-fix release of Mono, the release + notes are available <a + href="archive/mono-0.30.1.html">here</a> and you can download + it from our <a href="download.html">download</a> page. -@item Oct 15, 2001 +@item Feb 13, 2004: Mono Performance Optimization -<blockquote> - JIT engine supports many of the object constructs now (object - creation, vtable setup, interface table setup). + We have a new document that describes some <a + href="performance.html">common tricks to improve the + performance</a> of your Mono or .NET application. These are a + summary of techniques that we employed to tune our own C# + compiler. - 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. +@item Feb 2nd, 2004: Mono 0.30 has been released - System.Decimal implementation is in, as well as many crypto - classes. -</blockquote> + Check out the <a + href="http://www.go-mono.com/archive/mono-0.30.html">Release + notes</a> for details on Mono 0.30. Or go directly to our <a + href="download.html">download</a> section -@item Oct 5, 2001 +@item Jan 18th, 2004: LDAP class libraries in Mono tutorial. -<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>. + Sunil Kumar has written an <a + href="http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/cooldev/features/a_net_cplus_ldap_library_cdev.html">introduction + to Novell.LDAP</a> class libraries, which are part of Mono. - The plan is to integrate ildasm into the Mono CVS soon. This - component should in theory also be reusable for SharpDevelop - eventually. -</blockquote> +@item Jan 13th, 2004: MonoDoc 0.9 released. -@item Oct 4, 2001 + A new edition of MonoDoc, the Mono Documentation Browser, has been released, available in source form from: + <a href="archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz">archive/monodoc-0.9.tar.gz</a> -<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. +@item Jan 11th, 2004: Call for Stories - 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> + If you have a success story about using Mono or one of the Mono + components in any way, we want to hear about you. Please mail + your details to miguel@ximian.com -@item Sep 28, 2001 +@item Jan 4th, 2004: Windows Installer for Mono 0.29 -<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 othre 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 consits 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> + There is a <a href="archive/mono-0.29-win32-1.exe">Windows + Installer for Mono 0.29</a> available now. -@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> +<h2>Older News</h2> -@item O'Reilly + Click <a href="oldnews.html">here</a> to see older news. -<blockquote> - Brian posted a story on <a - href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a> -</blockquote> |