> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Anttila Janne > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 12:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Development] Qt5 combined source package - Perl dependency > > Hi, > > As you probably are aware, there has been a long thread on interest list > about Qt dependency bloat. One of the most commented problems has > been Perl dependency, especially on Windows. > > We have had similar feedback on commercial support channels. > > One quite simple change what we could do already for 5.1, is to run syncqt > before creating combined source archives. This would allow building Qt5 > sources (except webkit) without perl, like it was on Qt4 as well.
+1 . I think that's the most pragmatic solution. It seems the perl dependency is a real problem for some users, and it's not a big deal for us to just run that thing in the packaging step. Regards Kai _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
