Allow protobuf 7.x

[parthea]

Protobuf 7.34.0 was released last week https://pypi.org/project/protobuf/7.34.0/

All packages should be updated to allow Protobuf 7.x https://pypi.org/project/protobuf/7.34.0/

[daniel-sanche]

This has been merged in the generator, so the next step should be do do a gapic update

[parthea]

This could be considered a bug rather than feature request as the latest version of Protobuf and Cloud client libraries are not compatible.

[psalaberria002]

Has there been any progress on this?

[ferstlf]

This is also blocking usage of grpcio-status with protobuf==7.34.0 since grpcio-status requires googleapis-common-protos which requires protobuf<7.0.0

I filed a separate issue with gRPC because the grpcio-status package currently has the same wierd requirement. It directly requires protobuf<7.0.0

[parthea]

In addition to the changes in #16102, we'll also need the fix for grpc/grpc#41933 as per #16001 (comment).

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/488b14fd17934e8bbb469b6b383e10544ea0824d/src/python/grpcio_status/setup.py#L57

[ferstlf]

grpc/grpc#41933 just has been fixed.