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[Blair Bonnett <blair.bonnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 August 2015 at 18:28, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> The parser itself may occupy a significant amount of memory. In the case
> of IGES this is currently around 3MB but it will grow as the actual display
> features are implemented in the future, and STEP will definitely be much
> larger, especially if we initially use OpenCascade to implement it.
>

I don't know much about 3D formats, really just grateful for all the work
in making a usable 3D viewer for me... :). So I can't add much to this
discussion.

But can I request that, where possible, support for file formats like this
which rely on external libraries like this are made optional? If this could
be determined at runtime that would be ideal, but at least some compile
time options and/or detection.

Just to throw some numbers out there (from my Arch Linux install): my
version of KiCad (custom, locally-compiled package) is 66MiB, OpenCascade
by itself is 101MiB, and with all the dependencies it would pull in this
goes up to an extra 500MiB. It would be nice if it wasn't required in order
to run KiCad.

Cheers
Blair