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Google ships the struct.proto here https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/protobuf/struct.proto which is included when you do protoc.

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As for why we have our own copies:
#696

Is this too much of an implementation detail? Would the APIs be cleaner without them?

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Protobuf gives you a nice way to namespace packages, and including them is done with a -I just like one might imagine for compiling C code. I would like to keep them in a separate repository, but we need to offer a way to easily get them (for people like Justin), when they go to compile. Until there's a "proto repository" of sorts, some combination of keeping your own copy, git submodules, or downloading via a script are our best options. I think we could close this by adding the struct.proto to our repo. Since we use protoc we get some of Google's dependencies for free.

I'm really happy to learn about Wire, we need alternative implementations of protobuf, especially at the code generation end.

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