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<a href="http://www.ximian.com">Ximian</a> announced the
launch of the Mono project, an effort to create an Open Source
implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
Mono includes: <a href="c-sharp.html">a compiler</a> for the
C# language, a <a href="runtime.html">runtime</a> for the
Common Language Infrastructure and a set of <a
href="class-library.html">class libraries</a>.
You can read our <a href="rationale.html">rationale</a> for
this project. If you have questions about the project, please
read our list of <a href="faq.html">Frequently Asked
Questions</a> or <a href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">contact us.</a>
You might also want to <a href="download.html">Download the
source</a> for our work so far. Or you can grab a <a
href="snapshots">snapshot</a> of our current work.
You might want to <a
href="resources.html#mailing">subscribe</a> to our mono-list
and mono-announce-list
You can contact the team at: <a
href="mailto:mono-list@ximian.com">mono-list@ximian.com</a>
** Jan 4, 2002
Dietmar landed the Unicode support patch. Class libraries and
runtimes are now fully Unicode aware. The details are <a href=
"http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2002-January/002409.html">
here</a>
Last minute breaking news: Paolo got our compiler in Linux to
compile fib.cs, patches are comming tomorrow once we have
ChangeLog entries.
** 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.
** 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>.
** 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!
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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).
** 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.
** 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>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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>
** Nov 5, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar's new set of patches to the JIT have 20 out of 33
tests running now.
</blockquote>
** 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 commited 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>
** Nov 3, 2001
<blockquote>
Many clean ups have been going into the class library by Nick Drochak.
Mega patch from Dietmar: he commited 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>
** Nov 1, 2001
<blockquote>
Ravi commited the caller-side method selection of methods with
variable length arguments. Now he depends on Miguel finishing
the array handling support.
</blockquote>
** Oct 27, 2001
<blockquote>
Lots of classes for System.Web from Gaurav were commited 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 commited recently the IntegerFormatter code into
the CVS, so we got a pretty comprehensive integer formatting
engine that we can finally use all over the place.
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>
** 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>
** Oct 17, 2001
<blockquote>
Delegate support has been checked into the compiler
(definition and invocation); break/continue implemented.
</blockquote>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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>
** Sep 28, 2001
<blockquote>
<a
href="http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp">Sharp
Develop 0.80</a> was released today.
</blockquote>
** 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>
** 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>
** Sep 19, 2001
<blockquote>
Paolo has written a section on <a href="porting.html">Porting
Mono</a> to othre architectures.
</blockquote>
** 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>
** 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>
** Sep 10, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar checked in his CIL tree/forest regeneration and most
importantly, the x86 instruction selector burg grammar.
</blockquote>
** 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>
** Sep 4, 2001
<blockquote>
Dietmar checked into CVS the `monoburg' architecture
independent instruction selector for the JIT engine.
</blockquote>
** Aug 28, 2001
<blockquote>
<b>.NET Hello World is working under Mono!</b> The latest snapshots
will let you run it.
Hello World consits of 1821 CIL instructions,
performs 66 subroutine calls and loads 12 classes from the corlib.dll
Good work Mono team!
</blockquote>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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>
** Aug 3, 2001
<blockquote>
Daily snapshots of mcs and mono are now available, they will
run every night at 10pm Boston time.
</blockquote>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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 <a href="class-status/index.html">Class
Status</a> web pages up. These are a lot better than mine, and
we are now keeping better track of contributors.
</blockquote>
** 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>
** 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>
** 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>
** Jul 9, 2001
<blockquote>
Project launched.
</blockquote>
** O'Reilly
<blockquote>
Brian posted a story on <a
href="http://www.oreillynet.com/dotnet">O'Reilly Network .NET</a>
</blockquote>
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