[protobuf] Proto3 conversion growing pains: missing optional / has_foo() functionality.

2015-10-15 Thread Dylan Justice
I'm really missing the has_foo() functions on primitive elements. Was the decision to drop it from proto3 based on a survey of code on github, or just on an anecdotal type sentiment that "nobody's using it"? Here's my anecdote, for the record: I've started switching from Proto2 to Proto3.

[protobuf] Newest version of Protobuf that will work with Java and MSVC# 2008?

2015-10-06 Thread Dylan Justice
I've been trying for a good part of the day to build Protobuf v3.0.0-beta-1 for C# in MSVS 2008 -- the most recent version of Visual Studio that can target my Smart Mobile Device hardware. I'm starting to believe that this task is impossible. The Cmake files don't seem to work, and the .SLN