Integrate with Protobuf-PHP
drslump opened this issue · comments
I'm the author of Protobuf-PHP and I would like to propose you to merge both projects.
To be honest, the main motivation on my part is that I'm no longer doing PHP development, so maintaining the library has become a low-priority task for me. It'll be great if both projects could be merged to offer a great solution for Protobuf under PHP.
About two years ago I integrated a C extension for parsing the protobuf binary format (the lazy branch on the repo), since we needed some additional performance in a project. That change forced some refactorings and several optimizations to the PHP code too. It should be fairly easy to include support for your C extension.
As I see it, both projects have strong points going for them, php-protobuf must be really fast by having the runtime completely implemented in C, while protobuf-php hooks into the protoc command as a plugin to make use of its compiler, can work without extensions and allows to use other formats (ie: json, xml).
What do you think?
@allegro This seems like a great idea, especially the protoc plugin.
+1 from me.
Hi Slump,
I think it's a good idea. Do you mind if I import yours protoc compiler to my project? Or maybe you have other proposal:)
Cheers
That's wonderful.How‘s it going