[Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency

[Joerg Bornemann]

On 26/04/2013 19:06, BRM wrote:

> Not everyone using the non-git source deliveries (e.g. the ZIP file on the website) can install anything they want on their computers.

Understood. I consider this point valid. For those people we can provide 
an all-in-one pre-syncqt-ed source package.

> The people in question are not getting the source from git.
> They do not have msysgit installed.
> They are getting the compressed archive of the source for the release and building from that.
> And that is where the issue comes in; and using the releases is insufficient as they need to customize the build for their needs based on the build configuration options alone, i.e. no source changes.

I wanted to show that it would be relatively easy to get rid of the 
ActiveState Perl dependency and use msysgit's Perl instead. But if the 
target audience doesn't have git installed at all, then the effort isn't 
worth it.


BR,

Joerg