Thursday, February 21, 2008

MonoDevelop 1.0 RC1

Last week we released MonoDevelop 1.0 RC1, the (hopefully) last release before 1.0. This is a bug fix release, with no real new features, so the release notes are a bit boring this time. There is however a nice improvement: many icons have been redesigned to better fit the Tango style, so MonoDevelop now looks nicer. Those icons were designed by Vincent Depizzol as part of a GHOP project. We had other GHOP collaborations, such as for example new translations, I hope Michael can find the time to blog soon about all of them.



In addition to bug fixing, we are also starting to do some post-1.0 work in SVN trunk. Mike has been working on a new managed editor, fully implemented in C#, and it progressing very well. Ankit has started doing some preliminary work on the debugger integration, and I've been doing an internal redesign of the project model which will allows us to move to MSBuild as default file format. After so much time being focused on bug fixing, it is refreshing to start implementing new features.

I spent last week working on the add-in authoring extension for MonoDevelop, which has been stalling in my hard disk since I blogged about it almost one year ago. The add-in is not yet ready to be used, but it is close, and the code is finally in SVN. Let's see if I can find the time to finish it. So many things to do...

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Realy good news. Right now, only one think, that I miss, is a compacting VM in stable release.

Godfrey said...
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Nil Gradisnik said...

All I can say is you are all doing an amazing job developing Monodevelop. I've been following svn code for some time now and the progress from the last few months is really great.

It seems like it's all comming together for the 1.0 release.

Keep up the good work!
There are many of us out there who appreciate your hard work.

Nil Gradisnik

knocte said...

...and I've been doing an internal redesign of the project model which will allows us to move to MSBuild as default file format.

Hugh I think this overall is a great idea but, in the end, is this going to imply that the source files of MonoDevelop itself will be managed by .csproj files? I hope not, because I think MD should use its own project/solution format.

vdepizzol said...

Hello, Lluis. Thank you for the mention! But it's "Vinicius Depizzol", not "Vincent Depizzol" :).

Até!

Zviki Cohen said...

Sorry for barging in... why is it not Eclipse based? You can save a lot of trouble and work by basing it on Eclipse.