[Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of dependency bloat!

[K. Frank]

Hello List!

I'm considering upgrading to Qt 5, so I downloaded:

   qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.1.zip

Imagine my surprise when I unzipped the file and read the README
file.  I quote:

   Windows:
   --------

     Open a Windows SDK (7.0, 7.1 or later) command prompt. Ensure that the
     following tools can be found in the path:
     * Perl version 5.12 or later   [http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/]
     * Python version 2.7 or later  [http://www.activestate.com/activepython/]
     * Ruby version 1.9.3 or later  [http://rubyinstaller.org/]

Wow!  Three different scripting languages required to build Qt 5!  (Not to
mention a compiler and make tool.)

Say it ain't so, Joe.  Say it ain't so.


K. Frank