getprotoc

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Overview

getprotoc is a go:generate generator that downloads a given version of the C++ protoc compiler.

Usage:

getprotoc version

getprotoc takes a single argument: the version of protoc to fetch. GOOS and GOARCH are used to determin the OS and arch. Downloads are placed in $PWD/downloads/$GOOS/$GOARCH/$version.zip. You should probably .gitignore the $PWD/downloads directory.

getprotoc is useless by itself; it should generally be followed by a go-bindata directive that "vendors" a specific zip file.