2011/5/4 Bjørn Borud <bbo...@gmail.com>: > there is another issue that few people touch on when comparing the > two, but which is important in practice: the Thrift compiler is not > very portable, in the sense that it can quite obviously be built on > different operating systems, but you can only expect it to build > painlessly on Linux. which sort of nullifies some of its usefulness > if you want to use it as a cross platform tool.
Well this isn't really a point of comparison since the protobuf compiler is also in C++ and equally "less portable". Further, while I agree that it is important for the libraries to be cross-platform, I imagine most users being OK with the compiler available on one or two platforms. Finally, I know for a fact that the Thrift compiler can be compiled on Mac and Windows (with some effort) so there's proof of existence. Things can certainly be improved though. Diwaker
