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[LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>]

In response to a message written on 28.08.2015, 13:10, from Mário Luzeiro:
> > 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.
> Cirilo just wrote it to make a point in the discussion. I think we are still
> some years to have that issue with the size... but maybe.. at that time..
> 500Mb will be peanuts for the internet speeds. Anyway, IMO, if KiCad ever
> use that library it maybe going into a very complex CAD application and that
> may be not what is best to KiCad... at least at this (near future) moment.
IMHO, many additional functionalities (not core of design simple board) should be
developed as dynamic library plugins in independent repository, it's so strange
to compile every about 3000 files from reason of change few lines…

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LordBlick