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

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf
> Of Michael Jackson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:35 PM
> To: interest
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of dependency
> bloat!
> 
>  [...]
> I have not tried Qt 5 (I was just about ready to try it) but having to manually
> hunt down a Perl installation when I am not familiar with Perl, let alone the
> specifics of Perl on each platform seems to be a "User Experience" failure.
> Why doesn't the Qt Devs just simply post what version of Perl *they* are
> using in some OBVIOUS place, like the README so the rest of us don't have
> to spend hours and hours pulling our hair out trying to get Qt to compile.

README says "Perl 5.8 or later", and links prominently to http://qt-project.org/wiki/Get_The_Source , which says  "Windows users can download ActivePerl [activestate.com] for free.". So yeah, there's one indirection, we could  also link it directly in the README, but it's not entirely inaccessible and undocumented, either :)

Regards

Kai