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Ivan Kelly commented on BOOKKEEPER-303:
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Because to generate during build, it requires that a person has protoc
installed on their computer. Whats more, it requires that specific version is
installed. Putting the generated files in, removes that headache from people
downloading and trying out bookkeeper.
> LedgerMetadata should serialized using protobufs
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> Key: BOOKKEEPER-303
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BOOKKEEPER-303
> Project: Bookkeeper
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Ivan Kelly
> Assignee: Ivan Kelly
> Fix For: 4.2.0
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> Attachments: BOOKKEEPER-303.diff, BOOKKEEPER-303.diff,
> BOOKKEEPER-303.diff, BOOKKEEPER-303.diff
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> Google protobufs is a library for serializing and deserializing data. It
> elegantly handles the cases where new data is added to a data format. This is
> useful in the case of something like LedgerMetadata, which may change over
> time. However, at the moment, whenever we make a change to the LedgerMetadata
> serialization format we have to break compatibility with old clients. By
> using protobufs, even if we add something to the format, old clients should
> be able to read the ledgers.
> We should also change our protocols to use protobufs for the same reason, but
> this should be done in 4.3.0.
> http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
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