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From: Jim S. Witherspoon on 18 Jan 2010 21:42
Itag is a really cool freeware program for tagging photos using IPTC and
XMP headers. It is a .NET program, and I thought it was interesting what
the author had to say about this:

http://www.itagsoftware.com/index.php
http://www.itagsoftware.com/tips.php

"The .NET Framework however is simply a set of libraries that make it a lot
easier for software developers like myself to build applications.
Similar to Java, .NET provides bigger 'building blocks' to build an
application so a developer doesn't have to get bogged down performing nitty
gritty little tasks."

"It is such a well designed development platform that there is a large
project called Mono that is trying to bring the benefits of the .NET
Framework to Linux."

"Now if the open source guys want the .NET Framework available on Linux -
surely it can't be that bad can it? :)"

And here's a link to the Mono project:
http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

"Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create
cross platform applications. It is an open source implementation of
Microsoft's .Net Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the
Common Language Runtime. We feel that by embracing a successful,
standardized software platform, we can lower the barriers to producing
great applications for Linux."

It really doesn't bother me if a program is built on .NET, Java, GTK, Adobe
Air, whatever. It's a different matter if it's one of those Python things
- I haven't gotten a single one working yet. :D
From: Tim on 19 Jan 2010 00:07
Jim S. Witherspoon wrote:
> Itag is a really cool freeware program for tagging photos using IPTC
> and XMP headers. It is a .NET program, and I thought it was
> interesting what the author had to say about this:
>
> http://www.itagsoftware.com/index.php
> http://www.itagsoftware.com/tips.php
>
> "The .NET Framework however is simply a set of libraries that make it
> a lot easier for software developers like myself to build
> applications.
> Similar to Java, .NET provides bigger 'building blocks' to build an
> application so a developer doesn't have to get bogged down performing
> nitty gritty little tasks."
>
> "It is such a well designed development platform that there is a large
> project called Mono that is trying to bring the benefits of the .NET
> Framework to Linux."
>
> "Now if the open source guys want the .NET Framework available on
> Linux - surely it can't be that bad can it? :)"
>
> And here's a link to the Mono project:
> http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
>
> "Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily
> create cross platform applications. It is an open source
> implementation of Microsoft's .Net Framework based on the ECMA
> standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. We feel that by
> embracing a successful, standardized software platform, we can lower
> the barriers to producing great applications for Linux."
>
> It really doesn't bother me if a program is built on .NET, Java, GTK,
> Adobe Air, whatever. It's a different matter if it's one of those
> Python things - I haven't gotten a single one working yet. :D

It will become more and more of a non-issue on Windows machines too. Both
Vista and Windows 7 come with it as part of their installation. Many, I'd
guess most, XP machines have it too, either installed through having
automatic updates turned on, or installed along with something else... ATI
video drivers for instance.

--
Tim


From: John Corliss on 19 Jan 2010 03:01
Tim wrote:
> Jim S. Witherspoon wrote:
>>
>> (snip)
>> It really doesn't bother me if a program is built on .NET, Java, GTK,
>> Adobe Air, whatever. It's a different matter if it's one of those
>> Python things - I haven't gotten a single one working yet. :D
>
> It will become more and more of a non-issue on Windows machines too. Both
> Vista and Windows 7 come with it as part of their installation. Many, I'd
> guess most, XP machines have it too, either installed through having
> automatic updates turned on, or installed along with something else... ATI
> video drivers for instance.

Well, I for one don't have any version of dotnet installed on my system
and I have no trouble doing without it.

Maybe if I had a newer computer, it wouldn't be such a big issue for me
though.

--
John Corliss BS206. I block all Google Groups posts due to Googlespam,
and as many posts from anonymous remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.)
as possible due to forgeries posted through them.

No ad, cd, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited,
trial or web wares OR warez for me, please.
From: M.L. on 19 Jan 2010 05:07


>>> It really doesn't bother me if a program is built on .NET, Java, GTK,
>>> Adobe Air, whatever. It's a different matter if it's one of those
>>> Python things - I haven't gotten a single one working yet. :D
>>
>> It will become more and more of a non-issue on Windows machines too. Both
>> Vista and Windows 7 come with it as part of their installation. Many, I'd
>> guess most, XP machines have it too, either installed through having
>> automatic updates turned on, or installed along with something else... ATI
>> video drivers for instance.
>
>Well, I for one don't have any version of dotnet installed on my system
>and I have no trouble doing without it.
>
>Maybe if I had a newer computer, it wouldn't be such a big issue for me
>though.

John, didn't you once say you installed .NET on your computer for
compatibility with your digital camera software?
From: John Corliss on 19 Jan 2010 08:00
M.L. wrote:
> John Corliss wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>> Jim S. Witherspoon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It really doesn't bother me if a program is built on .NET, Java, GTK,
>>>> Adobe Air, whatever. It's a different matter if it's one of those
>>>> Python things - I haven't gotten a single one working yet. :D
>>>
>>> It will become more and more of a non-issue on Windows machines too. Both
>>> Vista and Windows 7 come with it as part of their installation. Many, I'd
>>> guess most, XP machines have it too, either installed through having
>>> automatic updates turned on, or installed along with something else... ATI
>>> video drivers for instance.
>>
>> Well, I for one don't have any version of dotnet installed on my system
>> and I have no trouble doing without it.
>>
>> Maybe if I had a newer computer, it wouldn't be such a big issue for me
>> though.
>
> John, didn't you once say you installed .NET on your computer for
> compatibility with your digital camera software?

That's correct. I had to install it along with Canon's Zoombrowser EX.
Eventually I got sick and tired of that program's slow performance,
realized that if I could find a replacement in freeware for it, I would
be able to uninstall dotnet 2 as well. I settled on Cam2PC:

http://www.nabocorp.com/cam2pc/freeware.php

and was both able to replace both Zoombrowser EX with a superior program
as well as to remove dotnet 2.

So I am, once again, dotnet free. And since my computer is extremely
long in the tooth, that's a must.

--
John Corliss BS206. I block all Google Groups posts due to Googlespam,
and as many posts from anonymous remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.)
as possible due to forgeries posted through them.

No ad, cd, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited,
trial or web wares OR warez for me, please.
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