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

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Wednesday 10 April 2013, K. Frank 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.
> 
Perl, Python and Ruby, that is just the webkit build dependencies. Not much Qt 
can do about that.

Regards
`Allan