Mono Archive
Mono on PowerPC Progress
The go-mono site reports 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), but it is getting there.
Mono: Taking the Leap Without the .NET
Earlier this year Novell purchased Ximian Software, the primary sponsor of the Mono Project. Novell is committed to providing support for open source development and specifically the Mono Project. There are plans for providing additional services around the Mono Project including support and consulting. Novell is also involved in providing resources for contributors by way of Novell Forge which will become the home for many Mono based projects and a community around Mono. Read the article here.
Update: On other C#/Mono news, the Qt# bindings project is almost on a halt, OSNews learned. Developers wanted to help out the one remaining developer, Marcus Urban.
Update: On other C#/Mono news, the Qt# bindings project is almost on a halt, OSNews learned. Developers wanted to help out the one remaining developer, Marcus Urban.
Mono 0.29 Released
GTK# 0.14, wx.NET 0.3 Released
The release 0.14 of Gtk# is a minor bugfix release to support an imminent Mono 0.29 release. wx.NET is a set of .NET bindings for the wxWindows cross-platform toolkit and the 0.3 version brings new features.
Miguel de Icaza on PDC Lessons
Miguel thinks of the future of OS-development under Windows and GNOME/Mono. Have a look here.
Mono Roadmap; GTK# 0.12
This document describes the high-level roadmap for Mono. Mono 1.0 is expected in 2004 and 2.0 in 2006. Mike Kestner released Gtk# 0.12 recently.
Mono 0.28 Released
There has been a new Mono release, v0.28. Mono has now integrated sourcegear's webservice enhancements and there has been a lot of improvement in XML, serialization and web services.
Mono 0.26 released
A new version of Mono is available, the new features include: Cairo support, Remoting.Corba 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. On other C# news, the .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP1 Redistributable is available.
Mono Playing Catch-Up
While a 2-year-old project to develop an open-source version of Microsoft Corp.'s .Net Framework is making progress, it's still a long way from prime time. "Yes, of course it's late," said Miguel de Icaza, Mono project leader, last week. "We were supposed to release the ECMA components, but the project has grown." Some Mono observers say they are watchful of Microsoft in this situation, wondering whether the software company is merely tolerating Mono now. "They will either outpace it with rapid-fire revisions to .Net or simply let Mono languish," said an anonymous observer. Read the article at eWeek.
Mono 0.25 Released
A new release of the Mono runtime and SDK is available for UNIX and Windows. Packages for various distributions are also available from our download page. Many new things have been improved, implemented, fixed, and tuned from the last release. The team at Ximian has been working on three areas to pass the tests provided by the SourceGear team. Elsewhere, dotGNU has made big progress.
SourceGear and Ximian Announce Partnership
Ximian and SourceGear have announced a partnership which will help SourceGear distribute their applications across platforms. SourceGear will help complete the missing parts in Mono.
Mono 1.0 Slated for Release this Year
Project Mono, an effort to create an open source version of the Microsoft Corp. .Net Framework, expects to release version 1.0 of its software this year, probably in the fourth quarter.
Mono+Ikvm Runs Eclipse
From the Mono homepage: "Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the Eclipse IDE running on top of Mono+IKVM. A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found here".
Mono 0.24 Released
Mono 0.24 is released, while .NET advocate John Carroll says that .Net develops advantages over Java.
.Net Is Moving To Linux, Unix
"As Microsoft and Sun Microsystems prep new Web services development platforms for debut this spring, Linux developers can expect the Mono Project to be completed not long after--by early fall. At Web Services Edge East here, Ximian CTO and Mono Project leader Miguel de Icaza told attendees that the version 1.0 server-side components of the software will be delivered in September." Read the report at InternetWeek.
Mono 0.21 Released
The Mono Project just released Mono 0.21, only a few days after 0.20 due mainly to a bug in the compiler which made it abort on top-level enums and delegates on Windows. In the meantime, various other minor bugs were fixed on the class libraries, the runtime and the compiler. Additionally, the similar Portable.Net dotGNU project, released version 0.5.2 recently.
Mono 0.20 Released
Mono wx.NET Wrapper and MacOSX Port in the Works
wx.NET is a .NET wrapper for the multi-platform toolkit wxWindows. Additionally, Mono Weekly News is out and Includes a new interview, software announcements and the PHP/Mono integration. Also, there is work being done to try and port Mono to MacOSX. More info on the ongoing effort, in the list.
Volunteer Project Could Oblige Microsoft to Work with Linux
"A lot of people are watching Miguel de Icaza, a bubbly young Mexican programming whiz behind an unusual project he named 'Mono', Spanish for monkey. Icaza's company, Ximian, has already produced software called Evolution that gives users of the free, open-source Linux operating system e-mail and calendar tools comparable to those that run on Microsoft's Windows operating system." Read the article at SiliconValley.