[m-rev.] for review: mention support for google protocol buffers on website

[Ian MacLarty]

For review by anyone.

Estimated hours taken: 0.2
Branches: main

news/newsdb.inc:
        Mention that there is now basic support for Google protocol
        buffers in Mercury.

Index: news/newsdb.inc
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/news/newsdb.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.107
diff -u -r1.107 newsdb.inc
--- news/newsdb.inc	29 Apr 2008 07:34:12 -0000	1.107
+++ news/newsdb.inc	13 Oct 2008 05:09:06 -0000
@@ -22,6 +22,17 @@
 
 $newsdb = array(
 
+"13 October 2008" => array("Google protocol buffers for Mercury",
+"Google protocol buffers allows a extensible binary protocol to be
+defined in a programming language independent .proto file.
+The protoc compiler then generates APIs for the protocol in C++, Java
+or Python.
+protoc has recently been extended with basic support for Mercury.
+The extension is available from
+<a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-mercury/\">the protobuf-mercury
+project site</a>."
+),
+
 "29 April 2008" => array("Currying of multi-moded predicates",
 "We now support currying of multi-moded predicates where the mode to
 use can be determined from the curried arguments.
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