Make it easier to build on older OS distributions
gitg is a stand-alone application (at least in terms of its use) - and therefor usable, in principle, on older system which do not have an up-to-date GNOME "ecosystem". However - to build it, one needs many GNOME-related libraries, and recent version of those - making it quite difficult and time-consuming to build.
It would be useful to people who use such older systems if this situation could be ameliorated somewhat. Options may include:
- Providing easily-accessible statically-linked executables for Linux (and MacOS etc.), which would work on almost any distribution.
- Providing a build mechanism which downloads relevant dependencies and builds them (difficult...)
- Providing a list of libraries and URLs for getting them, so that if they are all built and installed and visible to the gitg configure, one would be able to build gitg (where, possibly, there may be inter-dependencies between those libraries; but altogether one could build them on any Linux distribution from the last... 5 years? 10 years?)
Edited by Eyal Rozenberg