Bug#796508: ITP: protozero -- Minimalistic protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@debian.org>
* Package name : protozero
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : MapBox (https://github.com/mapbox/protozero/issues)
* URL : https://github.com/mapbox/protozero
* License : BSD-2-Clause and Apache-2.0
Programming Lang: C++
Description : Minimalistic protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++
protozero is a minimalistic protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++.
Designed for high performance. Suitable for writing zero copy parsers
and encoders with minimal need for run-time allocation of memory.
Low-level: this is designed to be a building block for writing a very
customized decoder for a stable protobuf schema. If your protobuf schema
is changing frequently or lazy decoding is not critical for your
application then this approach offers no value: just use the decoding
API available via the C++ API that can be generated via the Google
Protobufs protoc program.
The protozero headers are required for libosmium >= 2.3.0 that currently
bundles a copy of protozero in its source as it does for the utfcpp
headers too. utfcpp is already packaged for Debian and is used instead
for the libosmium Debian package.
A drawback of protozero is the current lack of big endian support, see:
https://github.com/mapbox/protozero/issues/14
The protozero package will be maintained within the Debian GIS team
along with libosmium.
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