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Surprising error/panic when using protoio package with standard Google protobuf package

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reading the linked go-libp2p-kad-dht issue and the documented protoio and pbio packages to understand the incompatible usage. Done means the mismatch is detected and users receive a clear error, with the intended pbio behavior provided if that approach is selected.

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Description

See: https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht/issues/1015

It may be common for users who are updating a package like go-libp2p-kad-dht, to not also update their usages of go-msgio to use the pbio package rather than the protoio package. We should detect this (somehow) and provide a clear error (and, perhaps, fulfill the intended request with the pbio package).

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Go
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17
Forks
13
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