The voice of the Mono Community.
Table of contents
- 1. Headlines
- 1.1 Mono 0.19 released
- 1.2 Gtk# 0.7 released
- 1.3 Mono 0.18 released
- 1.4 DB2 System.Data client contributed
- 1.5 MacOS X support on the runtime
- 1.6 IKVM (a Java VM for .NET) runs with
Mono - 1.7 Gsirc is making great process
- 1.8 Mono Debugger released!
- 2. Meet the team. This week Atsushi
Enomoto - 3. CVS Activity
- 4. Mailing List Activity
1.1 Mono 0.19 released
Yes!, this week we are having two Mono releases. The main reasons
for it is the 0.19 release were a lot of improvement in the
availability. Now Mono is packaged for the most important Linux
distributions. You can also get it through its own Red Carpet channel.
Better Remoting support (we now have the BinaryFormatter thanks to
Lluis), System.Web.Mobile to support Mobile browsing among others.
1.2 Gtk# 0.7 released
The Gtk#
team has provided us with a new release too. The changes since 0.6
are: the tutorial samples and monkeyguide docs spun off into
separate project. Build System fixes/enhancements, Metadata
parameter fixes, GStreamer fixes, Threading enhancements, GType
registration framework, libglade field binding enhancements,
Gdk.Drawable and Pango.Layout customizations, and Parser bugfixing.
1.3 Mono 0.18 released
The Mono team is proud to release Mono 0.18, with plenty of bug
fixes and improvements. If you are a happy 0.17 user, this release
is a happiness extension release. Many bugs in the runtime, class
libraries and C# compiler have been fixed. Some pills: we have many
improvements to the Mono VB.NET compiler. Authentication system in
ASP.NET. And the remoting infrastructure has got a big boost from
Lluis in this release.
1.4 DB2 System.Data client contributed
Christopher Bockner has contributed a DB2 System.Data client. We
have a very complete range of data providers.
1.5 MacOS X support on the runtime
MacOS X support on the runtime has been integrated into the
distribution, and MCS works with it. Running most tests works too.
Anyone with a MacOSX system is welcome to try the code, report bugs
and other issues and, hopefully, send patches:-)
1.6 IKVM (a Java VM for .NET) runs with Mono
Zoltan has managed to get IKVM (a Java VM for
.NET) to run with Mono. The HelloWorld.class runs with the Mono
runtime.
1.7 Gsirc is making great progress
Gsirc is Alp’s lightweight and flexible IRC client for the .NET
framework. It makes use of Gtk# and is known to run on Linux and on
Windows. It features a handy full-screen mode (Flotilla) which is
great for tracking dozens of IRC channels on a dedicated X terminal
or display. You can see it in action here
and get it at Gsirc’s
site.
1.8 Mono Debugger released!
The Mono Debugger 0.2.0 “Boston” has been released. After almost
half a year of hacking, we finally have a first public release of
the Mono Debugger :-). The source code is available at
this address. This release depends on Mono 0.19 so if you are
using an older version, update!.
2. Meet the team. This week Atsushi Enomoto
The Mono team is integrated by contributors all over the world that
are working really hard to get this project going further. In this
section we will be meeting this people so we can know more about
them and what they are doing.
This week we are proud to present Atsushi Enomoto.
Atsushi is a newcomer to the Free Software comunity. He is a
software engineer working at a certain venture company for about 2
or 3 years. Sometimes he uses dotnet with his job. The company he
works for has many XML business, but as for him, he has never met
few scene to handle XML. Once upon a time, he enjoyed MIDI
programming when not working. He also likes to translate XML
related materials into Japanese. His recent concern is about
cyberlaw, like what professor Lawrence Lessig teaches since he was
a law student studying criminal law and intellectual property laws.
Let’s see what are his interests in Mono and how is he contributing
to make the project achieve its goals.
Interview with Atsushi Enomoto
MWN: You are new to the Free Software community. How do you feel about it?. Are you enjoying it?. Atsushi Enomoto: I’m quite enjoying participating. |
MWN: Why did you come to Mono?. What are the reasons that moved you to choose it as the first OpenSource project to contribute to?. Atshushi Enomoto: Well… I had been interested in |
MWN: So as one of the mono developers in the System.XML namespaces (one of the basis parts of .net), what do you think about the implementation you are doing?. What are the main benefits you think Mono is bringing to Linux and the UNIX world with it? Atsushi Enomoto: Before I got involved in this, I |
MWN: Do you think the way .NET handles XML and the related technologies is as good as it promises?. What can you tell us about it, as a Java programer?. Atshushi Enomoto: Well, first to say, my Java |
MWN: Is there anything left you may want to say about which classes or tools you find prioritary to implement so people reading this could contribute? Atsushi Enomoto: Humm… the easiest way is to |
MWN: Thanks Atsushi. We are happy to see how developers from the Microsoft Windows environment come to Linux and to Mono and contribute to this project. Thanks for your time and your work. |
3. CVS Activity
This has been a busy week. Here are the results. (*) Actually I am
using the number of commits as measure, I will try to get more
accurate aproximations in the future. (Starting Jan 10th, till Jan
20th)
Authors: Total 28
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4. Mailing List Activity
This has been a quite week in the Mono list. You can see the
scrollbar in your Evolution mailbox
without forcing your eyes!. The main points:
- Daniel Morgan has had very busy days contributing a lot to the
list. Some of the useful information he provided was about SQL#. We
now know that: SQL# For GTK# will be moved to its own cvs module
sqlsharpgtk, some of the data binding functionality could be moved
to a base class so other GTK Widgets can take advantage of data
binding. Please
read for more info. - A little bit of discussion about the array access
performance.
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