Yeah, this is really a build system feature. make/maven/etc should check
whether the proto compiler needs to be reinvoked.

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Maurice Nicholson <
maur...@mauricenicholson.com> wrote:

> Answering my own question :-)
>
> Think I found what I need in the Maven plugin docs:
>
> "
> Normally this plug-in executes the protoc compilation on every
> execution
> this can be overriden by setting:
>                  <checkStaleness>true</checkStaleness>
> "
>
> From https://github.com/dtrott/maven-protoc-plugin#readme
>
> On May 25, 9:43 pm, Maurice Nicholson <maur...@mauricenicholson.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > is there an option for protoc to only generate files if the target
> > generated sources are out of date? (Currently it seems as if they are
> > always regenerated).
> >
> > We actually use Maven with the maven-protoc-plugin to build our
> > project, but I believe that's simply a wrapper around protoc itself.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Maurice
>
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