On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Jonathan Hsieh <j...@cloudera.com> wrote:

> I tend to agree with this -- there is no guarantee that future
> versions of this will not break compatiblity, (thrift did this
> multiple times), yeah, modifying protobuf stuff is rare.
>

FWIW, old versions of protoc did generate code which isn't compatible with
new versions of the library (similar to Thrift).

-Todd
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Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera

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