[Development] Do we really need Assimp?

[Mike Krus]

Hi

Using system assimp is probably the best scenario indeed. Except I think users would expect install packages to have that enabled so ideally assimp should be installed on CI systems.

Mike

> On 7 Jun 2018, at 17:24, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> El jueves, 7 de junio de 2018 13:03:43 -03 Thiago Macieira escribió:
>> 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?
> 
> In Debian we dropped it for some time due to some factor I can't remember now. 
> After a couple of months we've got one user asking for it.
> 
> I think had it been a very used component we would have received bugs more 
> promptly.
> 
> We are currently using system assimp [log], so I guess that if this route is 
> decided upon then it should not be too complicated to accomplish.
> 
> [log] <https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=qt3d-opensource-src&arch=amd64&ver=5.10.1%2Bdfsg-5&stamp=1523650759&raw=0>
> 
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