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Mark Hammond 47ef7c8c98 Update some crates to avoid cargo audit errors As part of this, update clap for app-services examples.		2024-03-06 16:02:17 +00:00
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Protobuf Rust generator

You may ask yourself: why not use prost-build directly in build.rs scripts like everybody else does? Well, Reasons, as usual.

prost-build includes big binaries (> 4MB for each architecture) that we would not be able to check into mozilla-central.
protoc is not even a dependency to build mozilla-central, therefore we would not be able to check in a "lite" version of prost-build that doesn't contain those binaries.

So instead, we use prost-build separately and check-in the Rust artifacts it generates. And that also makes the build faster, whoo-hoo.