protobuf3 (Google's data interchange format) Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data. This package contains protobuf API version 3. It support the following language implementations: * C++ * Java * Python * Objective-C * C# * JavaNano * JavaScript * Ruby * Go * PHP (Alpha) The complete documentation for Protocol Buffers is available at: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ NOTE: * This package should NOT be installed alongside with protobuf. Protobuf3 introduced API incompatibility and upstream will continue to support protobuf version 2. * Protobuf3 enforces strict UTF-8 checking. Parsing will fail if a string field contains non UTF-8 data.