[Mono-list] Mono: Post 1.0 plans and development update.
John Luke
jluke@users.sourceforge.net
Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:13:05 -0400
I don't know why I am asking about this, but wasn't there a plan for
smaller ECMA profiles for things like mobile devices? When I attended
a .NET user group meeting a few months ago this seemed to be a major
point of interest among the existing .NET users there. Forgive me if
I missed an obvious answer somewhere.
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:41:11 -0400, Miguel de Icaza <miguel@novell.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well, this release was fairly intense, thanks to everyone that
> contributed, the time has come to plan for the new features in Mono.
>
> * Releases
>
> Mono has been branched on the CVS repository and today we have
> two development tracks: the mono-1-0 branches and the HEAD
> branch. The mono-1-0 is only getting bug fixes and no new
> developments are happening there. The HEAD branch is where all
> the new features are being developed and where we are landing
> many of the patches that we did not get into the 1.0 release for
> various reasons.
>
> We will follow the Linux kernel model for release numbering,
> which means that we will release bug fixes and updates to the
> Mono 1.0 distribution, and those will be named 1.0.1, 1.0.2 and
> so on.
>
> The development versions of Mono will be released as well and
> will be named Mono 1.1.0, 1.1.1 and so on.
>
> * Updated Mono Roadmap.
>
> I am working on an updated version of the Mono roadmap to plan
> our upcoming releases, at this point we are completing the
> feature list of the things that my team inside Novell will be
> working on.
>
> Since Mono is developed by a large community outside of Novell
> the release will likely contain more than what my team is
> commited to do, purely based on external contributors, but the
> roadmap will try to be as conservative as possible in our time
> and feature estimates.
>
> I would like to make a release of Mono 1.2 (the next stable
> release) by February of next year, which means that we have
> roughly six months of development before we go into pure bug
> fixing mode.
>
> * Focus of the Novell team.
>
> There are a number of areas in which we are focusing for the
> Mono 1.2 release:
>
> * C# 2.1 implementation
>
> * AMD64 JIT port.
>
> * Visual Basic compiler.
>
> * Improved IO-Layer and Internationalization framework.
>
> * Gtk# improvement and GUI designer.
>
> * Mono Debugger.
>
> * Windows.Forms support.
>
> * JIT performance work.
>
> * Integration of patches that were too big to make
> it into the 1.0 release.
>
> * Code Access Security Framework.
>
> * Continued bug fixing of major and critical bugs.
>
> Those are the areas that people have expressed their most
> interest. Notice also that the above is still pretty much work
> aimed at the .NET 1.1 framework.
>
> Only a couple of developers are working on new features from the
> .NET 2.0 platform, but we do not believe that we can complete
> the .NET 2.0 API in time for the 1.2 release, so it is best to
> only deliver the bits listed above.
>
> As usual, a preview of the .NET 2.0 API will be available, but
> wont be complete.
>
> * .NET 2.0 work
>
> The Framework almost doubled in size in some parts of the
> framework. A handful of the Novell developers (Atsushi, Gonzalo
> and Lluis) will be working on the .NET 2.0 APIs in parallel,
> hopefully we can release some of the .NET 2.0 features a few
> months after the 1.2 release comes out.
>
> If you want to help, this is an area where we could use your
> contributions. Details about the large areas that need work are
> available on the CVS module called `release', look in the
> directory called mono_2_0.
>
> If enough people want, we can transform that list into something
> Web-browsable.
>
> An early ran of the API difference is available here:
>
> http://primates.ximian.com/~jackson/net_2_0/class-status.html
>
> We will automate this process and upload to mono-project.com on
> a constant basis.
>
> * Tinderbox setup
>
> Duncan has setup a tinderbox setup that keeps a close eye on
> both the stable and unstable branches of Mono, you can see the
> state of the build here:
>
> http://www.go-mono.com:8008/
>
> * Some recent developments
>
> A few interesting developments have happened recently on the
> HEAD version of Mono:
>
> * A new, more robust, more complete, more aggressive
> Arrays Bounds Check Elimination.
>
> * Many x86 code generation peephole optimizations.
>
> * A new mechanism that removes static roots from the GC
> to scan, and it already gave some nice performance
> improvements to mcs and specially small applications.
>
> This work is part of an ongoing effort to implement
> a precise collector.
>
> * Mod_Mono reduced latency with a new protocol, more
> options to control the child process.
>
> * Work has started on Web.Services 2 and XML 2.
>
> * More work on the Mono Debugger.
>
> * S390 JIT improvements from Neale.
>
> * JIT 64 bit cleanup (in preparation for SPARC v9 and
> AMD64)
>
> Miguel.
>
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