On Tuesday 16 January 2007 05:47 pm, Patrick Earl wrote: > Greetings all. I've been poking around the web and trying to track > the status of the GUID/UUID patches. In the todo list, that item is > not marked as going into 8.3, and I feel this is unfortunate. > > [...] > > One thing that is quite important, to me at least, is to make the GUID > generation functionality cross-platform. Using a random UUID > technique for an initial implementation would simplify this issue.
The problem with a random UUID generator is: where do you get the random numbers? However, there are really only two platforms to worry about: POSIX (use libuuid) and Win32 (there is probably a Win32 function to generate it, since MS SQL Server and the .NET API both provide GUID generation; but I can't seem to find it by searching the Web). Anyway, the uniqueidentifier project on GBorg seems like it has what you want: a user-defined type, and a generator. I think the main thing it needs is some code cleanup/robustness and a lot of production testing. -- David Lee Lambert (recent WSU grad) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cell phone: +1 586-873-8813 Work email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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