Switch Windows to MinGW [was: Minutes of the ESC call 2012-08-30]

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:54:56PM +0200, David Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 02.09.2012 09:38, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>>>* QA update (Rainer)
>>>>     + HardHacks:
>>>>       32948   Linux   Libreoffice/Database(?) - Address Book Data Source
>>>>                        Wizard fails with message "No SDBC driver was found"
>>>Sent back to QA after more analysis.

> This one is related to the decision of Debian/Ubuntu maintainers to
> disable LO's mozilla integration in their distro.
> With mozilla disabled the mesage above is the expected behaviour.

It would probably be more clear to the user if the option would be
unavailable (not listed) or greyed out.

> As always with open source you have more then one work around here:

> 1. Compile LO yourself (...)
> 2. (...) ongoing efforts to provide alternative (...)
> 3. If all above fail for your change your distribution.

Or use TDF's binaries instead of the distro ones.

-- 
Lionel