Jon Skeet

@quartzmo I suspect this can be closed now?

@anandolee: I don't have time to maintain protobuf at the moment; I'll unassign myself. I think this is user error which would be better caught elsewhere, to be honest. It...

I'm not convinced that the benefit of this outweighs the additional complexity. Rather than changing the default equality comparer via a partial class, I'd personally just implement a separate `IEqualityComparer`....

We try to use command-line options *very* rarely... and even though that would remove the extra code for most customers, it would still keep the complexity in the protoc plugin....

Interestingly, I've just started prototyping this, and already found some unexpected behavior *in the SDK I maintain*. (It's clear from the comment in the code, but not what I naively...

@duglin: My immediate goals are around format testing without bringing HTTP into the mix at all. [This branch](https://github.com/jskeet/sdk-csharp/tree/json-conformance-tests) shows what I've started looking at. (Check the latest commit, which may...

The branch now contains: - JSON format tests: 10 valid, 25 invalid - XML format tests: 8 valid, 49 invalid - Protobuf format tests: 6 valid, 20 invalid Next step:...

One note: currently this is *just* about parsing. There's nothing to test that the sample events are formatted in a particular way. That would be useful to do, but requires...

@duglin: I'd be happy for us to close this issue now, given that it's basically in progress in the conformance repo. Is that okay with you?

@embano1: My experience with both "get a standardized tool to invoke some kind of server" and "write the tests in their language" is that there's work involved in both approaches,...