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Mono 0.30 Released

Posted by michael on from the still-a-terrible-name dept.

Blair16 writes "From OSNews -- Mono 0.30 has been released. This release includes four components at once: the Runtime and Software Development Kit, the Documentation browser, and the ASP.NET server with its Apache module. Packages for various distributions are also available from our download page. This is mostly a fine-tuning release: bug fixing and performance improvements are the major benefits, but new classes and new features are also included. See the rest of the notes for details."

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  1. Re:Meanwhile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're slow because they're still adding all of the bugs that VS.Net has already.

  2. I can see the ad campaign now... by pb · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Got Mono?"

    ...eww...

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    1. Re:I can see the ad campaign now... by br0ck · · Score: 4, Funny

      You laugh.

    2. Re:I can see the ad campaign now... by MBoffin · · Score: 4, Informative
      You would that instead of perpetually being behind Microsoft in the current state of the libraries, that we would develop a completely new set of libraries. That way we aren't always playing catch up to what will ultimately be a windows only set of libraries.

      The Mono project is developing its own set of libraries. Read Question #1 of the Mono FAQ. This is why I support the Mono project. It's not just following in the footsteps of Microsoft. It's taking a good idea and pushing it beyond where Microsoft may or may not choose to take it.
    3. Re:I can see the ad campaign now... by Directrix1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      The Mono Project is an open development initiative sponsored by Ximian that is working to develop an open source, Unix version of the Microsoft .NET development platform.

      They may develop independant libraries, but the core of it is just implementing Microsoft's .NET platform which is the core library. They will always be catching up in that initiative, and they might as well just develop a completely new base of libraries.

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  3. We're not worthy! by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought I had Mono once for an entire year, turns out I was just really bored.

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    "Derp de derp."
  4. Holding out for debs by sab39 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sadly, the Debian packages are still in rather a strange state of limbo: You can get them if you can find the magic incantation to add to sources.list, but they're a January 14th snapshot (which isn't too old, but if you're going to do something from 2 weeks ago, why bother with a nightly snapshot in the first place, why not the last stable release?) and don't include libapache-mod-mono. Meanwhile libapache-mod-mono is also available separately but doesn't seem to work with the latest packages of everything else.

    Which is making my attempts to port an ASP.NET application to work on mono a fairly frustrating experience, to say the least...

    1. Re:Holding out for debs by reaper20 · · Score: 2, Informative

      They were in incoming earlier today and are already on my debian mirror.

      They're still the January 14th CVS pulls, but at least they're in Sid now, along with gnome-sharp and gtk-sharp, so they're probably packaging .30 as we speak.

  5. Re:monoculture? by ajagci · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Look in the FAQ. "Mono" means "monkey" in Spanish. Presumably, it's because of Miguel's heritage and the Ximian sponsorship.

    Because of the associations in English (mono-nucleosis, mono-poly, mono-aural) it was not such a great choice.

  6. Re:Meanwhile by ajagci · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Meanwhile, Mono already has a complete suite of open source toolkits and APIs that run rings around what Microsoft offers and let any Gnome programmer become instantly productive on the platform.

    In that, Mono has a leg up both on Java and on .NET: both Java and .NET require open source programmers to learn completely new APIs, APIs that are arguably proprietary. And in the case of Java, there isn't even a credible attempt at an open source implementation (of, for example, Swing), and it is questionable whether an open source implementation is even legally possible.

    Mono, in contrast, offers access to many open source APIs and libraries (foremost, Gtk+, which is the de-facto standard for Mono GUIs) and, in addition, makes a credible effort at providing a .NET environment and Java support, to the degree legally possible.

    Overall, the progress of the Mono project over the last year and a half has been nothing short of astounding. GNU C, GNU C++, and GNU gcj, took much longer just to produce a compiler and runtime, and all the open source Java platform efforts are woefully incomplete in comparison. The closest in terms of offering a complete environment is perhaps Python, but Python is a much simpler system under the hood and has different range of possible applications.

  7. Mono by pphoenix · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Haven't tried Mono, but i sure hope it is worth the change, from win32 .NET SDK, does anyone know about its performance, is it worth leaving my GNU C, for this MONO platform, or should i use C# for win32, when it comes to a *nix i stick with a C/C++ or a JAVA?

  8. Can someone explain it all to me? by rowanxmas · · Score: 2
    So I just downloaded and built the CVS version of mono using their linux script. It seemed to work out well, but now I don't know how to do anything. Here are the programs I have at my disposal:
    • mint
    • mono
    • monodis
    • monograph
    • monosn
    • pedump
    • mcs

    Now, I know that mcs is the compiler. I know that mono and mint run things ( but I don't know what the difference is ). I have no idea about the rest. I also don't know how to set up my "classpath". I am quite experienced in Java, but I am not sure how to go about using mono. Any hints would be welcome.

    The ultimate goal is to get Piccolo.NET to run. Since I use the regular Java Piccolo all the time.
    1. Re:Can someone explain it all to me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      mint - interpreter which is easier to port to different architectures but slower than mono

      mono - JIT runtime (faster than mint)

      monodis - disassembles assemblies (.exe and .dll) to CIL bytecode

      mcs - C# compiler

      example:
      mcs file.cs -o file.exe
      mono file.exe

  9. It's useful independently... think Gtk# by r6144 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It is already quite comfortable to write Gtk/Gnome programs with Mono. Great for those finding Gtk programs in C too verbose or manual free'ing too cumbersome.

    The only thing holding me back is the debugger which did not work well last time I tried (just usable, frequent lockups). Seems that it has been fixed, I'll give it a try...

  10. Re:monoculture? by hitchhacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Mono" means "monkey" in Spanish. Presumably, it's because of Miguel's heritage..

    Damn, dude. That's harsh..
    I suppose Miguel should just climb back up the tree he came from.. ;)

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