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@@ -5,17 +5,19 @@ supposed to explain general usage of Abseil.
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## The version of Abseil
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-gRPC is inteded to use the LTS versions of Abseil only because it simplfies
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+gRPC intends to use the LTS versions of Abseil only because it simplifies
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dependency management. Abseil is being distributed via package distribution
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systems such as vcpkg and cocoapods. If gRPC depends on the certain version
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-that aren't registered, gRPC in that system wouldn't build or work.
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+that aren't registered, gRPC in that system cannot get the right version of
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+Abseil when being built, resulting in a build failure.
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Therefore, gRPC will use the LTS version only, preferably the latest one.
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## Libraries that are not ready to use
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Most of Abseil libraries are okay to use but there are some exceptions
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because they're not going well yet on some of our test machinaries or
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-platforms it supports. Following is targets that are NOT ready to use.
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+platforms it supports. The following is a list of targets that are NOT
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+ready to use.
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- `absl/synchronization:*`: This will be ready from the LTS version in 2021.
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- `absl/random`: [WIP](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/23346).
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Esun Kim