Comment #5 on issue 210 by [email protected]: Java code should detect
incompatible runtime library version
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=210
Kenton, one of the reasons we've created the "shared" model artifact
that is
pre-compiled is to avoid re-generation of src files and recompiling them
every
time we run a build, which is done my many multiple projects. Is it
possible to
have protoc be smart about the files it re-generates, and just like javac,
only "compile" the ones that have changed, not the ones that have already
been generated before?
I don't understand what this has to do with the bug. Can't you just update
your pre-compiled protos whenever you update your protobuf version?
But to answer your question: it's generally the responsibility of the
build system to detect when changes have occurred and avoid re-running
commands. If none of the input .protos have changed, and the protoc binary
has not changed, then the build system should recognize that there's no
reason to run it.
Also, since you've indicated that the versions of protobuf-java are not
really
intended to be backwards compatible to each other, would it be better to
change
the versioning scheme to be just sequential, instead of following the
major.minor.patch convention? This way the build systems like Maven and
Ivy
would detect the incompatibility during build time and not allow
something like
2.0.3 and 2.3.0 to be build-compatible.
No, our version numbering scheme should not be dependent on some build
system's conventions.
However, if there is a way to communicate the incompatibility to Maven
without changing the public-facing version number, I'm happy to do that.
We do something like that in C++: we bump the SONAME with every release,
so protobuf 2.3.0 corresponds to libprotobuf.so.6, whereas 2.2.0 was
libprotobuf.so.5, etc.
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