Issue 238 in protobuf-dt: Have an option to compile .protos whenever necessary

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Status: New
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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium

New issue 238 by zorze...@google.com: Have an option to compile .protos
whenever necessary
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-dt/issues/detail?id=238

There is a preference to "Compile .proto files on save", but I would like
to have an option to compile them when needed -- i.e. whenever the
corresponding .java is missing or has an older timestamp than the proto.

Without that option, in order for things to work, one needs to have the ant
target trigger as an external program, which adds friction to bringing
protos to a project. And since the plugin knows which protos generate which
java files, that feels quite suboptimal.