Mono gets some first class love in Ubuntu!

I was pretty excited to see this article on mono in Jaunty Jackalope over at arstechnica today.

It looks like there is going to be a real effort to improve Mono support in Ubuntu and migrate all applications and the CLR to the 2.0 profile.

This is fantastic news - great work Ubuntu devs!

Mono bugs fixed; Spring.Net support coming soon!

I've managed to get all my Mono patches committed in time for 2.0 which be released very soon. Bugs I've fixed are:

#325128 ConfigurationSection.GetRuntimeObject
#395209 Fix incompatibility in the HierarchicaDataBoundControl
#397612 Mutually exclusive behaviour between Mono and MS.NET for xs:import

As well as a couple of other fixes I didn't create bugzilla bugs for:
The TypeDescriptor bug which I blogged about a while ago, and another XmlSchema bug where Uri.OriginalString wasn't being returned in the correct case.

Hopefully with these Mono bugs fixed in the latest release the major barriers to getting Spring.Net support finished and committed in will be removed. I'm in the process of working through my patch with Mark Pollack, so all going well we may see some Mono support in the next Spring.Net release.

Patching Mono

I submitted a fix for bug #325128 last night which was the last of the four patches needed get Spring.Net working on the Mono runtime. So far I've submitted patches for:

• TypeDescriptor


• XmlSchema


• HierarchicalDataBoundControl


• ConigurationSection

So far only the TypeDescriptor patch has been accepted and committed to the repository, but hopefully the other three won't be far behind. It's quite important to us that these patches make it into the 2.0 release so we can just use the official builds rather than having to build from source ourselves.