I don't follow what you are saying. Protobuf has a BUILD file: https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/BUILD https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/mas

I don't follow what you are saying. Protobuf has a BUILD file: https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/BUILD https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/BUILD Do you mean something else? A GitHub issue might be a better place for this discussion.