This is the Perl 6 Protocol-Buffers project, a port of Google's standard
binary message format and interface definition language to Perl 6. It is
still in the early stages of implementation. For example, while the current
code can successfully parse the message definition (.proto) files into
ASTs, it still lacks the ability to encode and decode the protocol buffers
themselves. For more details, see docs/ROADMAP.
Protocol-Buffers requires nothing more than core Perl 6, and is tested with current Rakudo on at least the JVM and Parrot backends.
To manage expectations, we have not added Protocol-Buffers to the Perl 6
module ecosystem yet; thus you cannot simply panda install Protocol-Buffers
in a single step. However you can use Panda to install from a git clone,
as follows:
$ git clone https://github.com/samuraisam/p6-pb.git
$ panda install p6-pb
For help with Protocol-Buffers, please come to the #perl6 IRC channel on
irc.freenode.net and ask for ssutch or japhb. If we're not available
right away, stick around and we'll get back to you in a bit.
Bugs and feature requests can be filed in the project's GitHub issues queue.
Thank you for contributing! Please send GitHub pull requests, and we'll
take a look as soon as we can. Regular contributors are welcome to request
commit bits from us on #perl6 (see Getting Help above).