# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| protobuf: protobuf (Google's data interchange format) protobuf: protobuf: Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for protobuf: serializing structured data, think XML, but smaller, faster, and protobuf: simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, protobuf: then you can use special generated source code to easily write and protobuf: read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams protobuf: and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data protobuf: structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled protobuf: against the "old" format. protobuf: