Re: Enhancement: can we get a copy of the documentation?

2009-04-10 Thread Kenton Varda
It's OK, we have enough bandwidth. :) Alternative punchline: It's OK, we scape other people's sites too sometimes. :) On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Pensky wrote: > > Thanks much! I thought about wget, but I didn't want to scrape your > website without asking first, it seemed kin

Re: Enhancement: can we get a copy of the documentation?

2009-04-10 Thread Alexander Pensky
Thanks much! I thought about wget, but I didn't want to scrape your website without asking first, it seemed kind of antisocial. :) On Apr 10, 3:51 pm, Kenton Varda wrote: > Using wget (a unix command -- available on Windows using Cygwin), you can > download the whole site like so: > > wget -r

Re: Enhancement: can we get a copy of the documentation?

2009-04-10 Thread Kenton Varda
Using wget (a unix command -- available on Windows using Cygwin), you can download the whole site like so: wget -r -l inf -np -p -k http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/index.html Options: -r = Recursive -l inf = Infinite recursion depth -np = Don't follow links to parent directories -p = F

Re: Protocol Buffers Vs. XML Fast Infoset

2009-04-10 Thread Kenton Varda
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Alexander Philippou < alexander.philip...@gmail.com> wrote: > The redundancy elimination mechanism of FI is actually a vocabulary > and it works differently than compression algorithms do. I think we define "compression" differently. In my book, "redundancy elim

Enhancement: can we get a copy of the documentation?

2009-04-10 Thread Alexander Pensky
Really I wanted to put this into Issues as an enhancement request, but I couldn't figure out how... Would it be possible to take all the Developer Guide pages and put them in a tarball on the Downloads page? Or include them into the source tarball? Currently, one can only read the docs at googl

Re: Protobuf-net Serialize problem

2009-04-10 Thread test.f...@nomail.please
Marc, another issue is that for optional string fields, protogen defaults to "". Shouldn't it default to null? optional string clientid = 2; private string _clientid = ""; [ProtoBuf.ProtoMember(2, IsRequired = false, Name = @"clientid", DataFormat = ProtoBuf.DataFormat.Default)]

Re: Protocol Buffers Vs. XML Fast Infoset

2009-04-10 Thread Alexander Philippou
On Apr 8, 10:15 pm, Kenton Varda wrote: > OK, well, I call that "compression".  Try gzipping the final protobuf and FI > documents and comparing the compressed sizes.  The protobuf will probably > compress better, so I'd expect the final results to be roughly even. The redundancy elimination mec