Re: [Perldl] A suggestion on an old required module?

[Fabio D'Alfonso]

Hi, thanks. I was considering the use of and existing module. Because the whole group of scripts is quite large (900 objects) , I was thinking at making an UUID (alias) based on another module. Could I contact the developer to ask if there is a simple way to get the three functions of uuid with his module? use UUID; UUID::generate($uuid); # generates a 128 bit uuid UUID::unparse($uuid, $string); # change $uuid to 36 byte string $rc = UUID::parse($string, $uuid); # map string to UUID, return -1 on error I am not an expert and I do not know what the specific reference    UUID - Perl extension for using UUID interfaces as defined in e2fsprogs. Could this idea work? Thanks Fabio D'Alfonso 'Enabling Business Through IT' cell.  +39.348.059.40.22 * web: www.fabiodalfonso.com email: fabio.dalfo...@fabiodalfonso.com linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/fabiodalfonso twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/fabio_dalfonso fax: +39.06.874.599.581 BlackBerry® Wireless Enabled Address. * Hidden  numbers are automatically rejected by the phone On 4/16/2012 1:01 PM, David Mertens wrote: Fabio - On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Fabio D'Alfonso <fabio.dalfo...@fabiodalfonso.com> wrote: Hi, I would ask here as there great experts in porting about an issue I have. I am managing to get at  work the perl SDK for vSphere. The problem is that on Windows they install an old 5.8 from activestate that breaks the setup I have on my notebook as they do not embed  the perl and config the material, but merely make another setup that is unacceptable. Sounds very irritating.   So I am moving the stuff to integrate with my activestate 5.14.2. The problem I have is that for a module UUID there is no version for windows starting from late 5.8 (and i is not a trouble free module).  Could suggest some workaround, or some way to safley try to migrate and test the existing version? You have a few options. First, you could try to take maintenance over the module. Second, you could use one of the new UUID modules and update the code of the module that requires UUID to use one of the newer modules. Third, you could create a new module that masquerades as UUID.pm, but which actually wraps one of the newer UUID modules. There are many newer UUID modules out there, including Data::UUID (maintained by Ricardo Signes, current pumpking and therefore pretty good chances of maintenance), Data::UUID::MT (a Mersenne Twister-based UUID module maintained by David Golden, Perl semigod, and therefore pretty good chances of maintenance) and UUID::Tiny (two modules to his name, still actively developing). Just my thoughts. Good luck! David   Thanks -- Fabio D'Alfonso 'Enabling Business Through IT' cell.  +39.348.059.40.22 *** web: www.fabiodalfonso.com <http://www.fabiodalfonso.com/> email: fabio.dalfo...@fabiodalfonso.com <mailto:fabio.dalfo...@fabiodalfonso.com>linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/fabiodalfonso <http://it.linkedin.com/in/fabiodalfonso> twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/fabio_dalfonso <http://www.twitter.com/#%21/fabio_dalfonso> fax: +39.06.874.599.581 BlackBerry® Wireless Enabled Address.         ** Hidden  numbers are automatically rejected by the phone* _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl --  "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.   Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,   by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan

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