feat: mirror protoc releases to a Starlark constant

bazelbuild / rules_proto

Protocol buffer rules for Bazel

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feat: mirror protoc releases to a Starlark constant #205

Closed alexeagle closed 6 months ago

alexeagle commented 9 months ago

This allows rules_proto to supply a pre-built binary toolchain for protoc without needing any Bazel module supplied by the protocolbuffers maintainers. Obviates the need for protobuf to be released to the BCR as in https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/pull/16014 Allows the protocolbuffers team to stop caring about Bazel builds for external users, and to close associated bugs.

Next step in rules_proto supplying a toolchain that doesn't require users build protoc from sources.

comius commented 8 months ago

cc @haberman @bellspice

alexeagle commented 8 months ago

Note, main is already red before this PR, looks like copybara merged stuff out of google3 without running the OSS tests?