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Installation doc needs update for major-less versioning?
At Protocol Buffer Compiler Installation (content/installation.md), in the "Install Using a Package Manager" section, it contains a warning about using a package manager and ensuring that the compiler version is 3+, but I'm thinking that the 3+ check predates the switch to major-less versioning for protoc?
For example, for macOS, the instructions say:
brew install protobuf
protoc --version # Ensure compiler version is 3+
And when I run that on macOS, I get 29.3:
$ /opt/homebrew/bin/protoc --version
libprotoc 29.3
29.3 is obviously >= 3, but this is the major-less version, so I'm think it's not what the installation document intends to say.
Oh, good point. Thanks for raising this. I'll update the docs to bring them current with our new versioning scheme.