[Bf-committers] Collada importer/exporter kickout

[Francesco Zoffoli]

I'm just curious: why can't an external library be used?

I know about Assimp, i double checked and it seams that it supports collada
import/export(at least they say so on their site, and i think it is full
support since it isn't marked with an * [2][3]). It also has a C or C++ API.
The licence is (a kind of [4])BSD, is this a problem?
This would offload main devs from format support. In addition blender would
be able to import/export all the format the external library already
handles. And in case specific files must be supported, this can be archived
with python or a specific imp/exporter.

Is there a reason why blender shouldn't rely on an existing library, or
it's a licence/features problem with the existing ones?


[1] http://assimp.sourceforge.net/index.html
[2] http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_features_formats.html
[3] http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_features_export.html
[4] http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_license.html