This represents the future direction of protobuf, replacing proto2/proto3 syntax with editions. These will enable more incremental evolution of protobuf APIs through features, which are individual behaviors (such as whether field presence is explicit or implicit). For more details see https://protobuf.dev/editions/overview/.
This PR contains a working implementation of editions for the protoc frontend and C++ code generation, along with various infrastructure improvements to support it. It gives early access for anyone who wants to a preview of editions, but has no effect on proto2/proto3 syntax. It is flag-guarded behind the `--experimental_editions` flag, and is an experimental feature with no guarantees.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 544805690
proto3.
Added a couple unit test proto3 files, for arena_lite and lite. Cloned
the proto3_arena_unittest to test some of the basics of generated code
(and to ensure that the generated proto3 test files are used by some
test).
Joshua Haberman
Jason Lunn
Mike Kruskal
Protobuf Team Bot
listonjesse
Feng Xiao
Adam Cozzette
Chad Whipkey
Bo Yang