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17 July 2002
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Mark Pilgrim did Python glue for the Amazon web services announced yesterday. A few comments. First, it's very good to see Amazon supporting SOAP and doing it in the same way that Google did and going a step further, by not being as tentative about it. I've initiated a conversation with Amazon, I want them to present on Web Services Day at Seybold in Sept. (I'm also going to invite Google and Apple as well.) Now about the Frontier/Radio glue for Amazon. I'm not programming in July, probably not in August either, getting my health back, etc. So if we want glue for Amazon, it's got to come from the community. Please follow the example of system.verbs.apps.google. Lots of examples. A tutorial for newbies. It doesn't have to take long. We have a good template. [Scripting News]
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 Mono and .NET - An Interview |  Posted by chrisd on Tuesday July 16, @04:51PM
from the not-the-kissing-disease dept.
all-of-the-dot writes "Would you use an open-source implementation of the .NET Framework? Ximian's Mono project enables you to build .NET apps that run on Linux and Unix as well as Windows. Check out the story from .NET Magazine's interview with Miguel de Icaza, Ximian cofounder and CTO" Added to which, AirLace writes "The Mono project has just achieved full self-hosting on Linux. While the C# compiler, itself written in C#, has been able to compile itself since March, Mono can now compile its own complete set of class libraries too. This announcement closely follows the release of the Phonic media player, the first .NET application for the GNOME desktop."
Mono and .NET - An Interview [Slashdot]
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Jul 16th, 2002. Paolo today got mono to complete host itself on Linux. This means that we can now compile the `corlib' using the Mono C# compiler and the Mono runtime. Compiling the corlib was rather tricky, because the types that the compiler uses during the compilation process will come from the source code it is compiling. After a few months of work, we have finally fleshed out all the remaining bugs. Now the next step is to update the makefiles to compile with the Mono tool-chain. A recapitulation:
* The Mono C# compiler was able to compile itself on December 28th, 2002. The resulting image contained errors though. * The Mono C# compiler was able to self-compile in on January 3rd, 2002. Becoming a self-hosting compiler on Windows. * The Mono runtime matured enough by March 12, 2002 that it was able to bootstrap the Mono C# compiler on Linux using our interpreter. This means that our development tool was self sufficient. * On March 26th, the JIT engine was fixed, so we could use this to run the compiler on Linux. * Martin fixed the remaining bugs in the compiler that stopped it from compiling the `corlib'. The resuling image still contained errors though. * On July 8th, Radek got the PowerPC port to bootstrap the C# compiler. This is important, because it exposed various tricky issues in a big-endian system. * Today: we can bootstrap the compiler using libraries and the compiler compiled with itself on Linux. The process is complete. In the meantime, Dietmar has quietly implemented the remaining pieces of Marshalling in the Mono runtime. This is very important for the Gtk# guys to move on with their bindings. To make things more interesting, he replaced most of the architecture specific code generation for trampolines (delegates, invocations, function and p/invoke trampolines) to use CIL. This CIL is then compiled on the flight by the JIT Compiler engine. By doing this, we have reduced the burden to port the JITer to new architectures, and that our trampoline code is cross platform. [Mono Project News]
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Jamie Cansdale.
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