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diff --git a/toolkit/components/protobuf/README.txt b/toolkit/components/protobuf/README.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..14a65b897a --- /dev/null +++ b/toolkit/components/protobuf/README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Protocol Buffers (protobuf) source is available at: + + https://github.com/google/protobuf + +This code is covered under the BSD license (see COPYING.txt). Documentation is +available at https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/. + +The tree's current version of the protobuf library is 21.6. + +We do not include the protobuf tests or the protoc compiler. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +# Upgrading the Protobuf Library + +1. Get a new protobuf release from https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases + +2. Run `$ ./toolkit/components/protobuf/upgrade_protobuf.sh ~/path/to/release/checkout/of/protobuf`. + +3. Update the moz.build to export the new set of headers and add any new .cc + files to the unified sources and remove old ones. Note that we only + need: + - files contained in the `libprotobuf_lite_la_SOURCES` target + (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/Makefile.am) + - the header files they need + - gzip streams (for devtools) + +4. Re-generate all .pb.cc and .pb.h files using `$ ./toolkit/components/protobuf/regenerate_cpp_files.sh`. |