FWIW, at Google our build system is set up such that everyone actually checks out the protobuf code from version control along with their project code, and the build system actually builds protoc as part of the build process. It works as long as you have a distributed build (e.g. distcc) and lots of machines, and it completely avoids any need for a release process for protobuf changes. Another thing you could do is put your build tools on a network drive, so that you don't have to install them individually on every machine.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Oliver Jowett <oliver.jow...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Kenton Varda <ken...@google.com> wrote: > >> So Java users don't like relying on C++ code in their build process. On >> the other hand, most C++ users would not accept Java in their build process >> either. But if we wrote the C++ code generator in C++ and the Java code >> generator in Java, then we'd need to write and maintain a .proto parser in >> both languages as well. A correct parser that supports all features (e.g. >> custom options) is a large, complicated piece of code, and maintaining two >> separate implementations of it would be a huge pain. >> This seems to leave no options that please everyone. :/ >> > > We have a similar issue here with an Ivy-based environment, but it's not > really a problem. > > We just put the path to protoc in a user-specific properties file (i.e. > $HOME/.build.properties) and require that our build machines are set up > appropriately if you want to build modules that use protoc. Since we already > have to do that for other tools anyway, it's no big deal. Installing protoc > just becomes another step in the list of prerequisites when preparing a > build environment, much like we have to install appropriate versions of > other tools needed to build (a JRE, Ant, Ivy, etc) > > -O > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
