2010-05-13 00:59:30 +02:00
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protobuf (Google's data interchange format)
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Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for
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serializing structured data, think XML, but smaller, faster, and
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simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once,
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then you can use special generated source code to easily write and
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read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams
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and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data
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structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled
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2012-02-12 07:16:42 +01:00
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against the "old" format.
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pysetuptools is a required dependency unless you disable python
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support by running the build with "PYTHON=no ./protobuf.SlackBuild"
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By default we build the python libraries because a few programs
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require it.
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