Removing MinGW cross-compilation scenario?

[David Tardon]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 04:54:27PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> Any objections against removing on master the code that allowed to build LO
> for Windows on Linux via MinGW?
> 
> I think it is generally considered a failed attempt by now, and I assume the
> code is already rotting.  But there is still code around which occasionally
> becomes the target of fruitless maintenance, see e.g. <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f8e77c0894f5eb4495edb79a387f0deb63830226>
> "Revert 'tdf#99589 tolower changed to rtl::toAsciiLowerCase'".

By a coincidence, I was thinking about sending the same mail. Just my
reasoning was oriented on the build system: all the MinGW-specific bits
in gbuild/configure and additional patches for external projects. So I
am all for the removal.

D.