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diff --git a/web/oldnews b/web/oldnews new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..55632f3ffbb --- /dev/null +++ b/web/oldnews @@ -0,0 +1,2917 @@ +@item Dec 21st 2003: Mono on PowerPC Progress. + + Paolo reports today that the Mono JIT on the PowerPC was able + to successfully run the Mono C# compiler to build its first + programs. This is by no means complete (exception handling is + missing, and Boehm GC seems to fail on MacOS X), this shows + the excellent progress Paolo has been making. + + Zoltan has added support for modules to MCS (generation and + consumption). + +@item Dec 10th, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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 + authoring of Web Services as well as web service clients + (which shipped in Mono 0.25). This works using our ASP.NET + runtime, so it works with either XSP or the Apache module. The + new Web Services work from Lluis added the missing bits: + <ul> + <li> .asmx files. + <li> Method calls with complex parameters (whatever XmlSerializer can currently serialize, which is a quite a lot). + <li> ref and out parameters. + <li> Soap headers (In, Out and InOut). + <li> Soap extensions, both global (configured in web.config) and particular to methods (configured using attributes). + </ul> + + For more details, see Lluis <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-devel-list/2003-July/001449.html">post</a> + + GUI-wise: Work on <a href="http://xr.xwin.org">Xr</a> to + implement System.Drawing continues. This will provide a full + GDI+ implementation for Mono, and this will be hooked up into + Gtk# and System.Windows.Forms. + + MonoDoc keeps moving along, with a new web-based version + coming up next, and we are also exploring a collaborative + extension to allow people to contribute documentation through + their web browsers. + + Zoltan's Coverage analysis tool has been checked into CVS. + With this tool it is now possible to find which class library + code paths are missing regression tests. The module is + `monocov'. Details are <a + href="http://www.nexus.hu/vargaz/">here</a>. A fresh Gtk# + version is available now. + + Jean's remoting-based Soap implenentation is also maturing. + +@item Jun 26th, 2003: Mono 0.25 has been released. + + We have released Mono 0.25. A list of the new features is + available <a href="archive/mono-0.25.html">here</a>. + + Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are + available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page. + +@item Jun 17th, 2003: Web Services client; Profiling hooks + + Lluis and Gonzalo have checked into CVS the support for web + services in the Mono runtime. This allows Mono to work as a + web services client. We still require a WSDL compiler to + compile the initial stub, but Erik has the beginning of a WSDL + compiler ready and Atsushi has continued work on his + experimental Xml Schema to C# class generator. + + As part of this, the Mono Http runtime has been rewritten to + increase reliability, scalability and conformance to the + specs. Also our io-layer has been extended to not have + arbitrary limits. This was done as part of our collaboration + with SourceGear. + + Paolo has commited the new pluggable profiling API to the Mono + runtime: now the profiler is built as a module, and a new code + coverage analysis has been checked in (and Zoltan already + added improvements to it). + + Mark's Mozilla bindings continue to improve, and we will shortly + migrate the Mono documentation browser to use Mozilla, to take + advantage of the tutorial's use of CSS. + + Jackson's work on the IL assembler and Ben on running + regression tests have provided us with a very needed tool in + the Mono toolkit. One of the last missing pieces on the SDK. + + On the crypto world, we got Sebastien's certificate viewer + checked into CVS and the crypto code keeps advancing by leaps + and bounds. + + Alexandre and Aleksey Work continues on Windows.Forms on top + of Wine and Gtk# (the former for full compatibility, the later + for ease-of-authoring). + + Cesar checked in the beginning of the semantic analysis code + for his JScript compiler, and will be working on it full time. + +@item Jun 11th, 2003: SourceGear and Ximian announce partnership + + Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server + solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced + that SourceGear Corporation will use Mono\x{2122} Project + technology to offer cross-platform versions of its + products. In addition, the companies have entered into a + development partnership under which Ximian will provide + custom Mono development to enable delivery of SourceGear + products later this year. As a result, SourceGear will offer + both UNIX and Linux clients for its SourceGear Vault source + code management tool, enabling broader use of its solutions in + mixed-platform development organizations. + + <a href="http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=sourcegear">Read more...</a> + + Some technical details are available <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-June/014334.html">here</a>. + +@item May 20th, 2003: OpenLink releases WineLib patches. + + OpenLink <a + href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-winforms-list/2003-May/000284.html">announced</a> + the release of Vladimir's work to turn Wine into a library + that can be used dynamically from Mono. This work simplifies + the work on System.Windows.Forms as it is no longer necessary + have a special version of the GC, nor have a stub program. + The patches are available <a + href="http://www.openlinksw.com/mono/">here</a>. + + Mono packages for the Linux/s390 are available now in the <a + href="download.html">download page</a>. + +@item May 10th, 2003: Eclipse runs on Mono + + Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the <a + href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse IDE</a> running on top + of Mono+<a href="http://www.ikvm.net">IKVM</a>. + + A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found <a + href="images/ikvm-screenshot.png">here</a> + +@item May 6th, 2003: Mono 0.24 ships + + We have released Mono 0.24 which includes our new code + generation engine. A list of the new features is available <a + href="archive/mono-0.24.html">here</a>. + + Packages for Windows, and various Linux distributions are + available on our <a href="download.html">download</a> page. + We are shipping Gtk# and MonoDoc packages for the first time. + +@item Apr 21st, 2003: Virtuoso 3.0 ships. + + <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com">OpenLink's</a> released + their <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/press/virt3rel.htm">Virtuoso + 3.0</a> database system. Virtuoso ships on Windows and Linux. + On Linux they use Mono as their runtime to host C#, .NET and + ASP.NET. Congratulations to OpenLink for their release. + + Virtuoso can be downloaded <a + href="http://oplweb2.openlinksw.com:8080/download/virtuoso.vsp">here</a> + and a demo is available <a + href="http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/hosting/ho_s_2/ho_s_2.vsp">here</a>. + + OpenLink is contributing fixes and code to the Mono project on + an ongoing basis. + + Jon Udell wrote a small <a + href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11stratdev_1.html">entry</a> + +@item Apr 19th, 2003: RelaxNG validating reader; Activities. + + Atsushi has created a <a + href="http://www24.brinkster.com/ginga/RelaxngValidatingReader/">RelaxNG</a> + validating XML reader. + + There is activity on the <a + href="http://www.gotmono.com">GotMono forums</a> and the <a + href="http://www.nullenvoid.com/gtksharp/wiki/">Gtk# Wiki</a> + +@item Apr 11th, 2003: First Mono Book is out; Team pages. + + The first book to cover Mono is out. This book is currently + only available in German, you can find it <a + href="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3827264928/qid=1050051051/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/028-2755135-1623712">here</a> + + We now have a page for the <a href="team.html">Mono Team</a> + where we include a list of some of the people who have made + Mono possible. If you have CVS access, please update the page + to include your information. + +@item Apr 5th, 2003: New compilation engine. + + The new Mono compilation engine has been placed on CVS, the + details are <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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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, 2003: 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> |