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Roy Williams

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Feb 19, 2021, 7:20:27 PM2/19/21
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Howdy,

In Nov 2020 protobuf reserved the namespace `pb` for protobuf to move to in the future (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/bd9a7104e11740e4bcfbde46c190c2d908ef331a/src/google/protobuf/port.h#L42-L44).  This is very problematic for us as all of our protobufs are in the `pb` namespace and breaks our ability to upgrade.  This seems to be quite a common pattern in the industry - https://github.com/search?l=Protocol+Buffer&p=1&q=%22package+pb%22&type=Code .

If at all possible can we roll back that change?  I suspect it has the potential to break a huge number of users beyond just us.

Thanks,
Roy


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