[Development] Do we really need Assimp?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 7 June 2018 04:31:13 PDT Sean Harmer wrote:
> Another option is to only rely upon a system installed assimp and build
> these tools only if found at configure time. In fact, that's probably
> easiest and best. Then we can remove assimp from the source. It means
> users woudl need to build these tools/plugins themselves (typically on
> macOS/Windows) but at least they would be easily available.
> 
> Would that be acceptable to the project?

How often is the tool used and how needed is the plugin? Asked differently, if 
most users didn't have access to them, would they notice?

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