Merge pull request #120 from nockty/helpers

Make generated code use public helpers instead of generating them

README.md

@@ -113,11 +113,9 @@ The following features can be generated:
 
 7. (Optional) Switch your RPC framework to use the optimized helpers (see following sections)
 
-## Well-known types
+## `vtprotobuf` package and well-known types
 
-By default, `vtprotobuf` will detect ProtoBuf [well-known types](https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/google.protobuf/) embedded in your own Messages and generate optimized code to marshal and unmarshal them.
-
-In order to access the optimized code for these types, your `_vtproto.pb.go` files will have a dependency on this Go package. If this is not acceptable, you can disable well-known types with `--go-vtproto_opt=wkt=false`.
+Your generated `_vtproto.pb.go` files will have a dependency on this Go package to access some helper functions as well as the optimized code for ProtoBuf [well-known types](https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/google.protobuf/). `vtprotobuf` will detect these types embedded in your own Messages and generate optimized code to marshal and unmarshal them.
 
 ## Using the optimized code with RPC frameworks
 

cmd/protoc-gen-go-vtproto/main.go

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ func main() {
 	cfg.Poolable = make(generator.ObjectSet)
 	f.Var(&cfg.Poolable, "pool", "use memory pooling for this object")
 	f.BoolVar(&cfg.Wrap, "wrap", false, "generate wrapper types")
-	f.BoolVar(&cfg.WellKnownTypes, "wkt", true, "generate optimized code for well-known types")
 	f.StringVar(&features, "features", "all", "list of features to generate (separated by '+')")
 
 	protogen.Options{ParamFunc: f.Set}.Run(func(plugin *protogen.Plugin) error {