Dennis Shao

Have you tried getting the value of https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/db38a8c2dac34daa2d64bf904216997525617abf/src/google/protobuf/descriptor.proto#L242 ?

Hi selotape, thanks for you contribution and sorry for the delay. This is a sound PR. We're still evaluating it and its implication to other protobuf languages from our internal...

After having a closer look over our fieldmask API, doesn't `trim()` meet what you want? I know there's definitely a reason for "clearing" instead of "trimming", but just want to...

I've started a proposal but currently interrupted by some other tasks. I hope I can send it for review this week

Hi sorry again for the delay. Unfortunately, we have to suspend this PR until further notice. Protobuf is dealing with some ownership issues about the FieldMask API. Google has officially...

Yes we're making progress to have "poison pills" that enforces https://protobuf.dev/support/cross-version-runtime-guarantee/ firstly in Java, C++ and Python. > > The code generated by 4.21.x happens to be backwards compatible with...

That sounds about a reasonable change. Do you have a PR ready?

We suggest to try updating the protobuf library version to match the proto-compiler version. There might be older protobuf library versions installed and somehow linked to the new gencode/protoc. This...

Aren't we already doing that? e.g. https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/google/protobuf/descriptor.pb.h#L164

oic can you give me a concrete example of such usages, and why is it superior to the refections e.g. "descriptor->field(i)"?