Re: [protobuf] Re: Contribution: C++Builder Compiling

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Saad
Hello, Thank you for adding a link! We'd like to accept patches. However, we don't have enough engineering resources to maintain another platform. Supporting a different platform requires much testing work in the release process (also user support). I'd suggest to keep the C++ builder

Re: [protobuf] Re: Contribution: C++Builder Compiling

2011-11-09 Thread Pherl Liu
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Scott Saad saa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Thank you for adding a link! We'd like to accept patches. However, we don't have enough engineering resources to maintain another platform. Supporting a different platform requires much testing work in the release

[protobuf] Re: Contribution: C++Builder Compiling

2011-10-17 Thread Scott Saad
My experience has been that C++Builder is worse (less standards- compliant / less capable) than GCC and MSVC, so most changes to accommodate it are actually working around its shortcomings. I've also struggled with C++Builder in the past. I was working some on getting protobuf to work

[protobuf] Re: Contribution: C++Builder Compiling

2011-10-12 Thread Josh Kelley
On Oct 11, 11:32 am, Scott Saad saa...@gmail.com wrote: In my opinion these changes would be great to have merged back into the protobuf proper branch as most of them aim to make the code base more cross compiler compliant. I suppose the C++Builder is a bit more strict on a few items. My

[protobuf] Re: Contribution: C++Builder Compiling

2011-10-11 Thread Scott Saad
A quick status update on this effort: - I forked the source at GitHub under the protobuf-cppbuilderhttps://github.com/saadware/protobuf-cppbuilderproject. - The biggest overarching changes revolved around namespaces. These changes were minimal but touched many files. - Main cause