# The devel/protobuf port

## protobuf-2.4.1 – c++ protocol buffers

## Description

    Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for
    serializing structured data - think XML, but smaller, faster, and
    simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then
    you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your
    structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a
    variety of languages. You can even update your data structure without
    breaking deployed programs that are compiled against the "old" format.

WWW: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/

Categories:
  devel

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- devel/gmake

## Run dependencies