Is it possible to generate rust files from proto files without using tonic_build?

[frederikhors]

Is it possible to generate rust files from proto files without using tonic_build?

I can open a PR to improve docs about this.

Thanks in advance.

[wez]

Did you figure out the answer to this? I'm not enthusiastic about installing the protobuf compiler on a wide variety of systems and would much prefer to pre-generate and check this artifact in to the repo.

[0xcaff]

#1092