[Shotwell] How to stay current with shotwell?

[Gerry Reno <greno verizon net>]

I would like to stay current with Shotwell releases by compiling everything from source.

The problem I run into is that with each Shotwell release dependencies are changing and many times the distro 
is unable
to provide some of these dependencies.

Is there a way to compile Shotwell and all of its dependencies from source separate from the distro as a 
whole build
process?