[steering-discuss] Reminder: next SC call on Wednesday

2011-07-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, just a short reminder: the next SC call will take place on Wednesday, 1600 UTC. As usual, you can find an editable agenda at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibO 3.4.2 RC1 under Windows

2011-07-24 Thread Valter Mura
Il giorno 24/lug/2011 01.54, plino pedl...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hi Andras Andras Timar wrote: You fail to understand what people try to explain to you. I can argue the exact same thing. Andras Timar wrote: Currently we install start the VC++ 2008 redistributable 9.0.30729.4148

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-24 Thread e-letter
On 22/07/2011, Christophe Strobbe christophe.stro...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: At 02:33 21-7-2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 07/20/2011 05:02 PM, e-letter wrote: On the users mailing list, a significant proportion of a random view of questions seems to be with relation to using LO is

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-24 Thread e-letter
On 22/07/2011, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/07/2011 15:24, e-letter wrote: Fine. People are/should be free to choose whichever program they prefer. If someone likes the interface of m$o, good for them. The point of the original post, is that priority should be for LO

[tdf-discuss] Re: disclaimer for extension website

2011-07-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/07/11 00:13, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : Hi Dennis, Some sites have a link for DMCA notices, often at the bottom of the page. I see them from time to time, but don't know where I last saw one. I will check some obvious candidates: Many of the aggregator sites for what turn out

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-24 Thread e-letter
On 23/07/2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 07/22/2011 10:24 AM, e-letter wrote: On 21/07/2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyakand...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 07/21/2011 08:47 AM, e-letter wrote: On 21/07/2011, Andrew Douglas Pitonyakand...@pitonyak.org wrote I am more

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibO 3.4.2 RC1 under Windows

2011-07-24 Thread Andras Timar
Hi Pedro, 2011/7/24 plino pedl...@gmail.com: Andras Timar wrote: Currently we install start the VC++ 2008 redistributable 9.0.30729.4148 installer, if it is not installed and skip the installation, if it is installed. If you can skip if the SAME version is installed why can't you skip if

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibO 3.4.2 RC1 under Windows

2011-07-24 Thread plino
Hi Andras Andras Timar wrote: Because it is not possible to query a newer version reliably. Especially, detecting yet to be released newer versions seems to be difficult to me. The MsiQueryProductState call can be used only if the product code of the package is known. I'm not a programmer

RE: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The statement that there is perfect interoperability between older and current versions of OpenOffice and LibreOffice is incorrect. An example of that is in the handling of lists in text documents. These things happen. Some times for good reasons. Sometimes for no reason (bugs and

[tdf-discuss] Windows MSI installers WAS LibO 3.4.2 RC1 under Windows

2011-07-24 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Plino You reminded me of a very useful point that in my honest opinion should be made available to enterprise environment users. I am sure most of you are aware that windows server has something called group policy. With this it requires installers to be msi based. One perk of having these

[tdf-discuss] Conference Call for Papers extended

2011-07-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, this is to notify you that we have just extended the deadline for the LibreOffice Conference Call for Papers. You can now send in your proposal until August 8th at http://conference.libreoffice.org/submit-your-paper/ If you have something interesting from the community,

[tdf-discuss] removing old versions

2011-07-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, at the moment, all old versions of LibreOffice, including each and every release candidate released so far, are available for download from http://download.documentfoundation.org As the number of releases takes a lot of disk space, I am currently planning to move these files to