[Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ...

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi *,

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Michael Meeks
<michael.meeks at collabora.com> wrote:
> [...]
> * Release Engineering update (Christian)
>     + 4.3.0 Beta 1 status
> [...]
>        + investigating Windows test failures (spellchecking)
>           + a python issue related to UI mode - not seen when
>             running from the terminal; different return value
>             internally; around stdout/in etc.
>           + now patched.
>             http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/external/python3/python-3.3.3-py17797.patch.1
>           + will run on XP and later without crashing.

Turns out that the patch is not as reliable as it should be :-/
Beta1 build on XP still suffers from the problem.

Workarounds:
* run LibreOffice from a cygwin shell (then everything works, also
java and python scripts)
or
* disable auto-spellchecking and don't use Tools|Macros (i.e. avoid to
load python in any way).

ciao
Christian