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

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 10 April 2013 04:43, K. Frank <kfrank29.c at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

And add icu, and flex + bison + gperf under Linux.

The fact is that Qt 5 includes big monsters such as JSC, V8 and
WebKit, and they come with their own build requirements.

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Giuseppe D'Angelo