&gt;&gt; But they couldn&#x27;t get the autotools to work... then there was some missing dev dependency... then something else was wrong... then they tried using Nix to get a dev environment but that failed too... a few hours later they said &quot;fuck it&quot; and probably went to watch TV, or to punch a wall.<p>Aaaaargh, if you hadn&#x27;t of said &quot;last week&quot;, I would have thought that was me. I&#x27;ve had that same experience myself, several times. I try again after a few years to see if things got better, but they never do. And it&#x27;s not just Gimp, I&#x27;ve had it on several other projects, too.<p>Some people criticize me for my &quot;reinventing the wheel&quot;, but if I can&#x27;t easily get a dependency running for something, I feel I have to write it myself. The ease of including the dependency in such a way that anyone coming along to start the project from scratch needs to be an order of magnitude less than maintaining my own version, because the disappointment from failing to get a project up and running, say nothing about making changes to it, is a serious impediment and discouragment.