Re: Forward/backwards compatibility - slightly OT

2009-06-10 Thread Alek Storm
Could you clarify a little more? I'd be happy to help, but you have tried Googling this, right? On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Alain M. ala...@pobox.com wrote: Hi, One of the big advantages of ProtBuf is the ability to make comunications Forward *and* backward compatible beween versions.

ppc7400 instead ppc architecture when building on macosx

2009-06-10 Thread G.Angel
Hi, I’m trying to build the protocol buffers for macosx with fat support for i386 and ppc. I’m using this script to do it: # Configure with flags to build Universal binaries env CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch ppc' LDFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch ppc' CXXFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch ppc' \ sh ./configure

Re: Forward/backwards compatibility - slightly OT

2009-06-10 Thread Alain Mouette
Yes I have google a few times, but nothing that I got was usefull :( What I want to understand more is this: The way PB is constructed, an old SW can talk to an newer SW and they can get along using only what they understand, with little extra programing. That per-se is probably close to what