Comment by colinsane

love this project. i used it on my pinephone daily for at least a year: it does _everything_ you'd want and does it fast.

problem for me was that they vendor like 30 different dependencies in a totally bespoke way that's largely incompatible with any modern package management: it downloads them as part of ./configure (IIRC) and with no way for the OS to provide its own. so you're either stuck using the prebuilt releases without any means to patch/improve the software, or if you do want to make improvements then it's a full-time job to keep the package in a buildable state. in the end that was too much work for me and i switched to Foliate: it's noticeably slower (webkitgtk) and lacking, but it's way simpler to develop on.

maybe they've improved the build system in the last couple years, though a quick peek shows that the nixpkgs expression is still using the binary release. if it becomes practical to build from source in the future i will 100% switch back to it.