[Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Anttila Janne
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 12:01 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As you probably are aware, there has been a long thread on interest list
> about Qt dependency bloat. One of the most commented problems has
> been Perl dependency, especially on Windows.
> 
> We have had similar feedback on commercial support channels.
> 
> One quite simple change what we could do already for 5.1, is to run syncqt
> before creating combined source archives. This would allow building Qt5
> sources (except webkit) without perl, like it was on Qt4 as well.

+1 . I think that's the most pragmatic solution. It seems the perl dependency is a real problem for some users, and it's not a big deal for us to just run that thing in the packaging step.

Regards

Kai