Clarify the usage and the versioning of the artifact

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zhangkun83 2015-03-30 10:57:00 -07:00
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@ -4,7 +4,12 @@ for the messages and/or RPC services from ``.proto`` files.
Because ``protoc`` is a native executable, the scripts under this directory
build and publish a ``protoc`` executable (a.k.a. artifact) to Maven
repositories.
repositories. The artifact can be used by build automation tools so that users
would not need to compile and install ``protoc`` for their systems.
## Versioning
The version of the ``protoc`` artifact must be the same as the version of the
Protobuf project.
## Artifact name
The name of a published ``protoc`` artifact is in the following format: