Nothing prevents you from making a module available for everyone's benefit. If it is broadly useful, it will undoubtedly be universally adopted.
--Chris P.S.: What is a "decimal type"? On Apr 4, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Jawaid Hakim <[email protected]> wrote: > Date and decimal types are ubiquitous and in wide use. Language specific > bindings could easily be created - this is exactly what we do in some other > open source projects that I contribute to. The way I envision it, protocol > buffers would provide 'date' and 'decimal' types - protoc compiler would > compile these into language specific data types (e.g. java.util.Date for Java > and DateTime for C#). > > Jawaid Hakim > Chief Technology Officer > CodeStreet LLC > 646 442 2804 > www.codestreet.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexandru Turc [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:09 PM > To: Jawaid Hakim > Cc: Protocol Buffers > Subject: Re: [protobuf] Additional data types > > > proto files are mapped to many languages, Date and BigDecimal are java > specific. > > On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:37 AM, jhakim wrote: > >> Any plans to provide out-of-the-box for commonly used data types such >> as Date (encoded as String) and BigDecimal/BigInteger types? Seems >> this would be of interest to a lot of users. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Protocol Buffers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
