Ogg codecs are used, just look at what's happening in the gaming industry. Heroes of might and magic 3 used MP3s for music, recent versions of Unreal tournament and Heroes of might and magic 5 use ogg vorbis and ogg theora.
Then vs2005 came along. This thing is a monstrosity. It didn't fix anything that I had a problem with in vs2003. Instead, it became more slow, badly architectured and is a total shrine of mediocrity. It spam refresh the project list tree for dozens of seconds at a time for no reason. Close multiple tabs and watch as it pointlessly waste its time (and yours) refreshing the display after closing each tab. The project configuration dialog is a complete joke which tend to overwrite the wrong project settings for no reason. Watch it randomly remove projects from the solution from times to time. Create a file, add it to the project, and it chokes and crash.
There are many improvements over 2003 (note I use it for C#): You can turn on/off viewing of errors, warnings and info. For.NET compact framework, the remote debugger actually works in 2005 "Find reference" in 2003 -> "Find all references" in 2005
And of course, they still haven't figured out how how to make resizable dialogs. They have, it's called TableLayoutPanel (although it's a far cry from Glade's version;-).
Scalability is horrendous. With 256 MB of RAM, the virtual memory was used so much that my disk developed bad sectors within 4 months. But with 512 MB it is considerably faster.
I use thing thing 8 hours per day. I hate it with a passion. Me too, but I think it's very good - at least for C# (I suspect it's not that great for C++).
And it's not like it's cheap either. Last time I checked the express version was free.
Read the wine documentation.
Placing a DLL in wine's system32/ directory is not enough, you have to run winecfg and make an override for MFC42.DLL.
Irfanview worked for me without any of this - maybe I used an older version.
You've got a point, binaries on Linux are a real problem (http://plan99.net/autopackage/Linux_Problems). autopackage works around some of them, so at this point in time, it's your best shot.
Distributing applications in binary form isn't only useful for commercial software: consider Gaim and Inkscape, which use autopackages for this purpose. Apparently Inkscape is hard to install any other way.
It's easier to run a pre-compiled executable than compile from source, it's less work for the developer if time isn't wasted packaging for different distributions where it will always be out of date, and it's one of the reasons Windows is so popular.
LSB, autopackage and the like are steps in the right direction.
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Ogg codecs are used, just look at what's happening in the gaming industry. Heroes of might and magic 3 used MP3s for music, recent versions of Unreal tournament and Heroes of might and magic 5 use ogg vorbis and ogg theora.
Then vs2005 came along.
.NET compact framework, the remote debugger actually works in 2005
;-).
This thing is a monstrosity. It didn't fix anything that I had a problem with in vs2003. Instead, it became more slow, badly architectured and is a total shrine of mediocrity.
It spam refresh the project list tree for dozens of seconds at a time for no reason. Close multiple tabs and watch as it pointlessly waste its time (and yours) refreshing the display after closing each tab.
The project configuration dialog is a complete joke which tend to overwrite the wrong project settings for no reason.
Watch it randomly remove projects from the solution from times to time.
Create a file, add it to the project, and it chokes and crash.
There are many improvements over 2003 (note I use it for C#):
You can turn on/off viewing of errors, warnings and info.
For
"Find reference" in 2003 -> "Find all references" in 2005
And of course, they still haven't figured out how how to make resizable dialogs.
They have, it's called TableLayoutPanel (although it's a far cry from Glade's version
Scalability is horrendous.
With 256 MB of RAM, the virtual memory was used so much that my disk developed bad sectors within 4 months. But with 512 MB it is considerably faster.
I use thing thing 8 hours per day. I hate it with a passion.
Me too, but I think it's very good - at least for C# (I suspect it's not that great for C++).
And it's not like it's cheap either.
Last time I checked the express version was free.
Read the wine documentation. Placing a DLL in wine's system32/ directory is not enough, you have to run winecfg and make an override for MFC42.DLL. Irfanview worked for me without any of this - maybe I used an older version.
You've got a point, binaries on Linux are a real problem (http://plan99.net/autopackage/Linux_Problems). autopackage works around some of them, so at this point in time, it's your best shot.
Distributing applications in binary form isn't only useful for commercial software: consider Gaim and Inkscape, which use autopackages for this purpose. Apparently Inkscape is hard to install any other way. It's easier to run a pre-compiled executable than compile from source, it's less work for the developer if time isn't wasted packaging for different distributions where it will always be out of date, and it's one of the reasons Windows is so popular. LSB, autopackage and the like are steps in the right direction.