Can OpenCollada be split into separate modules?

Hi;
First: please apologize if i am asking at the wrong place, but it appears to me like here is where i can get the answers :)

The Collada libraries make up about 30-40 MByte of the Blender distribution. The entire Blender distribution is about 100 MBytes in size. So there is a desire to reduce the size of the Collada libraries in the blender shipping.

Since Blender does not use all of Collada's possibilities, we just discussed in Blender IRC if it is possible to split up the OpenCollada libraries into smaller parts, so that the total size of the Collada module can become significantly smaller.

Is this doable? Is anybody working on this? or... where should we start digging? I guess it is somewhere in the area where the library sources are generated... right? Is there any documentation about how the libraries are generated? anything that helps getting to speed with this quickly?

Start by tracing how the OpenCOLLADA library sources are generated and looking for documentation about that process; the issue names no files or tests. Define module boundaries around the functionality Blender uses, then verify that the resulting Collada libraries are materially smaller in the shipped distribution.

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