>>> On Tuesday, 27. November 2007 at 3:27 pm, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Anyone have a pointer to a "standard" UUID transform for strings? > You need a version 3 (named based) UUID
Example from OSSP uuid(3) man page # generate DCE 1.1 v3 UUID (name based) $ uuid -v3 ns:URL http://www.ossp.org/ 02d9e6d5-9467-382e-8f9b-9300a64ac3cd The OSSP uuid [1] library was written by Ralf S. Engelschall. It is highly portable and offers a lot of bindings to various programming languages. Ralf is a Co-Author of RFC4122 [2] "A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace". You can consider OSSP uuid being the de-facto reference implementation of a UUID generator, encoder and decoder. Please note previous RFC drafts attempting to publish ISO/IEC 11578:1996 had bugs in their embedded reference implementation, which was one of the reasons for creating OSSP uuid. [1] http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/ [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt -- http://thomas.lotterer.net ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List [email protected]
