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| author |  zhangkun83 <zhangkun@google.com> | 2015-03-30 10:57:00 -0700 |
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| committer | zhangkun83 <zhangkun@google.com> | 2015-03-30 10:57:00 -0700 |
| commit | 9f4d9c6a443ff0b6f847f0d0e1054cd140aeb7d5 (patch) | |
| tree | 4194821902cd6f9798a3d02bdfab2947d39803fe /protoc-artifacts/README.md | |
| parent | 65858d51bbea49c19f0c2a1d4c223b781ea688f7 (diff) | |
Clarify the usage and the versioning of the artifact
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diff --git a/protoc-artifacts/README.md b/protoc-artifacts/README.md index 136ae4a6..3d48ed22 100644 --- a/protoc-artifacts/README.md +++ b/protoc-artifacts/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,12 @@ for the messages and/or RPC services from ``.proto`` files. Because ``protoc`` is a native executable, the scripts under this directory build and publish a ``protoc`` executable (a.k.a. artifact) to Maven -repositories. +repositories. The artifact can be used by build automation tools so that users +would not need to compile and install ``protoc`` for their systems. + +## Versioning +The version of the ``protoc`` artifact must be the same as the version of the +Protobuf project. ## Artifact name The name of a published ``protoc`` artifact is in the following format: |