[devel/protobuf] upgrade request to 3

CeDeROM cederom at tlen.pl
Wed Nov 30 17:38:35 UTC 2016


On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> This probably requires a new port (protobuf30), as it crosses a major
>> version boundary (2.x -> 3.x) and judging by the presence of separate
>> protobuf (2.6.x) and protobuf25 port.
>
> As far as I studied the issue, a new version is not required. See
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212973

Tanks! :-) It looks that 2 and 3 have different API. Keeping
'protobuf' up to date and leaving 'protobuf2' for legacy reasons seems
to be reasonable.. :-)

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