If I may..
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:16:03 -0700, Kenton Varda wrote: > Regarding maven plugins -- why can't the plugin just invoke protoc using > Runtime.exec()? What's the benefit of having the code generator running > inside the Maven process? Honest question -- I don't know very much about > Maven. Any reliance on external binaries is a complete PITA because it makes the entire project unportable and reliant on the platform-local installation. In the real world (outside the big G ;) people actually do use Windows, OSX and different flavours of Linux all in one project; hardcoding executable paths into the POM is just not practical. Another aspect is reliable configuration/argument passing and error control. The general benefit of having protoc properly integrated into maven is that it perfectly fits into the overall model of build phases, one of which just happens to be code generation. There are no reasons why a protoc-plugin could not bundle statically linked protoc executables for a variety of platforms inside the jar and then extract them to (say) /tmp before starting..except maybe for the overall fragility of such an approach. Same for an ant task; in fact they both could probably share the same common launcher code. Now all we need to do is to find someone to write it :) -h --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
