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diff --git a/misc/protobuf3/README b/misc/protobuf3/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3c70ca0ab0 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/protobuf3/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +protobuf3 (Google's data interchange format) + +Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for +serializing structured data. + +This package contains protobuf API version 3. +It support the following language implementations: +* C++ +* Java +* Python +* Objective-C +* C# +* JavaNano +* JavaScript +* Ruby +* Go +* PHP (Alpha) + +The complete documentation for Protocol Buffers is available at: +https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ + +NOTE: +* This package should NOT be installed alongside with protobuf. + Protobuf3 introduced API incompatibility and upstream will + continue to support protobuf version 2. +* Protobuf3 enforces strict UTF-8 checking. + Parsing will fail if a string field contains non UTF-8 data. +* This SlackBuild installs the Python bindings by default. |