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> I had little trust in my ability to pick the right dependencies from an ecosystem that I was not familiar with

For me this is an invaluable lesson to learn. A pet peeve of mine are tutorials or guides which consist of a list of external packages and libraries to add before writing a line of code.

This write up is excellent though, some of the gripes I have with the Apple eco system the OP has turned into a 'learning' experience in a positive way. Really nice.



> For me this is an invaluable lesson to learn. A pet peeve of mine are tutorials or guides which consist of a list of external packages and libraries to add before writing a line of code.

likewise, 80% of the tutorial is preamble to prepare for the 20% you care about.

just don't.


"Here is the compacted multi-line command I used to set up an environment a few years ago. I will not be explaining what it does or why you need these specific lib versions, but will assume that we all have a few of their dependencies installed."

And it's still the most useful guide to setting up Qt because it's the only first-page result that mentions Berkeley.


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