J2ObjC Protoc 3.5.1 failing in some environments

[Daeda88]

It seems the latest release of J2Objc has problems running j2objc_protoc in some environments, most notably Travis. This problem has happened on other versions of the library before and was usually fixed by the team quite fast.

See also https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/j2objc-discuss/qLvM4qP6A_8

[tomball]

Our internal release doc had the old protobuf version number. I'll update it and rebuild a 2.1.1.

FWIW, I'm surprised that a protobuf user needs a release build. Protocol buffers are a fairly advanced subject, and all that's needed to create a release build is download the source and run "make dist". The release builds are mostly for developers new to iOS development, especially those unfamiliar with shells and command-line tools. There's nothing special about a released build, as anyone can checkout that tag and rebuild it to get the same bits.

[Daeda88]

Thank you for the quick response! While I have no doubt we could rebuild the library manually ourselves, due to it's size we tend to keep it out of our own Git repositories and just download it from Github through a script whenever we need to. Hence our current reliance on the release flags.

[tomball]

Fixed in release 2.1.1.