[mosh-devel] does mosh have a version-specific dependency on Google Protobuf?

[James C. McPherson]

Hi Alex,
thankyou for the quick and reassuring response.

btw, is there a test suite to help confirm the hypothesis?

James

On 15/05/15 09:50 AM, Alex Chernyakhovsky wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>  From my reading of
> https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L187, there
> are no wire-level differences. As long as mosh builds, it should
> stil=l be compatible across protobuf versions. I recently rebuilt
> Fedora's mosh to work against libprotobuf.so.9, which IIRC is 2.6.1,
> and I noticed no issues.
>
> The protobuf generated output source should be different, since protoc
> got new features.
>
> Sincerely,
> -Alex
>
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, James C. McPherson
> <James.McPherson at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hi mosh-devel,
>> I've observed that Google Protobuf has made some incompatible
>> changes between v2.5 and 2.6.1.
>>
>> When I built mosh for Solaris (internal testing / evaluation
>> work), I used 2.5 and all seemed well. I built it again today
>> using 2.6.1 - and again, all seems ok, but the protobuf generated
>> output is different between the two versions.
>>
>> Does mosh have a dependency on a specific version of Google
>> protobuf?
>>
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>> James C. McPherson
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