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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/README b/vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/README index b4accc0c0..0ad513633 100644 --- a/vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/README +++ b/vendor/github.com/gogo/protobuf/README @@ -207,6 +207,50 @@ the --go_out argument to protoc: protoc --gogo_out=plugins=grpc:. *.proto +## Compatibility ## + +The library and the generated code are expected to be stable over time. +However, we reserve the right to make breaking changes without notice for the +following reasons: + +- Security. A security issue in the specification or implementation may come to + light whose resolution requires breaking compatibility. We reserve the right + to address such security issues. +- Unspecified behavior. There are some aspects of the Protocol Buffers + specification that are undefined. Programs that depend on such unspecified + behavior may break in future releases. +- Specification errors or changes. If it becomes necessary to address an + inconsistency, incompleteness, or change in the Protocol Buffers + specification, resolving the issue could affect the meaning or legality of + existing programs. We reserve the right to address such issues, including + updating the implementations. +- Bugs. If the library has a bug that violates the specification, a program + that depends on the buggy behavior may break if the bug is fixed. We reserve + the right to fix such bugs. +- Adding methods or fields to generated structs. These may conflict with field + names that already exist in a schema, causing applications to break. When the + code generator encounters a field in the schema that would collide with a + generated field or method name, the code generator will append an underscore + to the generated field or method name. +- Adding, removing, or changing methods or fields in generated structs that + start with `XXX`. These parts of the generated code are exported out of + necessity, but should not be considered part of the public API. +- Adding, removing, or changing unexported symbols in generated code. + +Any breaking changes outside of these will be announced 6 months in advance to +protobuf@googlegroups.com. + +You should, whenever possible, use generated code created by the `protoc-gen-go` +tool built at the same commit as the `proto` package. The `proto` package +declares package-level constants in the form `ProtoPackageIsVersionX`. +Application code and generated code may depend on one of these constants to +ensure that compilation will fail if the available version of the proto library +is too old. Whenever we make a change to the generated code that requires newer +library support, in the same commit we will increment the version number of the +generated code and declare a new package-level constant whose name incorporates +the latest version number. Removing a compatibility constant is considered a +breaking change and would be subject to the announcement policy stated above. + ## Plugins ## The `protoc-gen-go/generator` package exposes a plugin interface, |