my rage from v8 is spilling over
779f61c6a3
protoc - New flags --encode and --decode can be used to convert between protobuf text format and binary format from the command-line. - New flag --descriptor_set_out can be used to write FileDescriptorProtos for all parsed files directly into a single output file. This is particularly useful if you wish to parse .proto files from programs written in languages other than C++: just run protoc as a background process and have it output a FileDescriptorList, then parse that natively. C++ - Reflection objects are now per-class rather than per-instance. To make this possible, the Reflection interface had to be changed such that all methods take the Message instance as a parameter. This change improves performance significantly in memory-bandwidth-limited use cases, since it makes the message objects smaller. Note that source-incompatible interface changes like this will not be made again after the library leaves beta. Python - MergeFrom(message) and CopyFrom(message) are now implemented. - SerializeToString() raises an exception if the message is missing required fields. - Code organization improvements. - Fixed doc comments for RpcController and RpcChannel, which had somehow been swapped. |
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Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Copyright 2008 Google Inc.
http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/
BETA WARNING
============
This package is a beta. This means that API may change in an
incompatible way in the future. It's unlikely that any big changes
will be made, but we can make no promises. Expect a non-beta release
sometime in August 2008.
C++ Installation - Unix
=======================
To build and install the C++ Protocol Buffer runtime and the Protocol
Buffer compiler (protoc) execute the following:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make check
$ make install
If "make check" fails, you can still install, but it is likely that
some features of this library will not work correctly on your system.
Proceed at your own risk.
"make install" may require superuser privileges.
For advanced usage information on configure and make, see INSTALL.txt.
** Hint on insall location **
By default, the package will be installed to /usr/local. However,
on many platforms, /usr/local/lib is not part of LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
You can add it, but it may be easier to just install to /usr
instead. To do this, invoke configure as follows:
./configure --prefix=/usr
If you already built the package with a different prefix, make sure
to run "make clean" before building again.
** Note for Solaris users **
Solaris 10 x86 has a bug that will make linking fail, complaining
about libstdc++.la being invalid. We have included a work-around
in this package. To use the work-around, run configure as follows:
./configure LDFLAGS=-L$PWD/src/solaris
See src/solaris/libstdc++.la for more info on this bug.
C++ Installation - Windows
==========================
If you are using Micosoft Visual C++, see vsprojects/readme.txt.
If you are using Cygwin or MinGW, follow the Unix installation
instructions, above.
Java and Python Installation
============================
The Java and Python runtime libraries for Protocol Buffers are located
in the java and python directories. See the README file in each
directory for more information on how to compile and install them.
Note that both of them require you to first install the Protocol
Buffer compiler (protoc), which is part of the C++ package.
Usage
=====
The complete documentation for Protocol Buffers is available via the
web at:
http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/