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Mono 0.29 released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2003-12-03 05:22. Mono
Mono

The Mono folks released new Mono, Monodoc, mod_mono versions. Featuring, among other things:

  • Monodoc, documentation writing facility (Screenshot).
  • Progress on the PPC code generator port (Screenshot).
  • Internationalization support.
You can see the full list of features here. And you can download it here.Mono is the Free Software implementation of the .Net development platform. Which gives us:
  • Garbage collection facilities.
  • A pretty big class library.
  • A compiler for C#.
  • A just in time compiler or virtual execution engine and a precompiler.

PowerPC Support

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2003-12-03 09:03.

It's good to see that PPC is still in progress. But I've a few questions, though:

What does "progress" mean? Is it level with x86 now, or lagging behind?

Why darwin? Will the PPC stuff work equally well on linux/ppc etc?

Finally, what exactly stopped powerpc releases coming out previously? Perhaps I missed something, but I could only find releases for something like 0.16 of mono/ppc, whereas mono/x86 was around 0.26.

Should it just be slower without special ppc support? Why did it recent code not work AT ALL? And what does that mean for mono as an open, architecture-independant solution?

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