James Ward

I'm still a bit confused by what path people are taking to run into this. Why not just use the protoc plugin from Maven Central? @mgenov Why are you building...

Ah, so I have a better understanding now of what is going on. Thanks all for providing more details. So the way that the Gradle protoc plugin is able to...

I have a PR to improve the compiler readme. Can anyone that's had issues with this check it out: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-kotlin/blob/4cc534adafa518460700eafc7a54de42cb829df5/compiler/README.md And let me know if it helps: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-kotlin/pull/207

@eleduardo What version of the protoc gradle plugin are you using? You need to have at least 0.8.13. I'll add that note to the new README.

@eleduardo Great! I've added that to the updated README. Thanks for helping us improve this.

cc @aragos

@lowasser will be best for addressing this.

I wonder if we could reproduce this by setting up a load test. It'd be nice to have some automated tests like this.

Yeah, I'll try to take a stab at that.

I have seen that but it'd be nice to be able to specify the python version in just one place. :)