I spent yesterday trying to get protobuffers working in maven, see http://vlkan.com/blog/post/2015/11/27/maven-protobuf/ http://vlkan.com/blog/post/2015/11/27/m

I spent yesterday trying to get protobuffers working in maven, see http://vlkan.com/blog/post/2015/11/27/maven-protobuf/ http://vlkan.com/blog/post/2015/11/27/maven-protobuf/ for the pain. Anything counter to maven's way is a PITA. In this case, Maven dislikes platform specific binaries.