Google has recently released the method it uses for internal data exchange to the open source world. "Protocol Buffers" will probably get a lot of attention soon, and a lot of packages will start using them. Please add this to the tree. As a sidenote, I'm currently trying to make an ebuild working for this package. It will be attached as soon as it works. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: The following USE flags should be supported: examples java python vim
Created attachment 159955 [details] protobuf-2.0.0_beta1.ebuild Finally, it works. I hate java. Well, it works now. Maybe not the cleanest solution ever, but it builds and installs. I haven't checked (and completed) the src_test() functionality.
The java dependency optional at compile time, bug mandatory at runtime is an error, I guess?!
Created attachment 159974 [details] protobuf-2.0.0_beta1.ebuild Yeah, quite is, here is an updated ebuild :)
dev-libs/protobuf is now in CVS :) Thanks for the ebuild and the bug report. The ebuild I committed to CVS is based on the one you submitted and on my draft version I had in my personal repository.