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diff --git a/misc/protobuf/slack-desc b/misc/protobuf/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..a2565095e1c35 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/protobuf/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line +# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' +# on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must +# make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':'. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +protobuf: protobuf (Google's data interchange format) +protobuf: +protobuf: Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for +protobuf: serializing structured data, think XML, but smaller, faster, and +protobuf: simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, +protobuf: then you can use special generated source code to easily write and +protobuf: read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams +protobuf: and using a variety of languages. You can even update your data +protobuf: structure without breaking deployed programs that are compiled +protobuf: against the "old" format. +protobuf: |