Re: [pdf-devel] New developer and UUID module request

[Albert Meroño Peñuela]

Hi,

Please find attached a proposed patch

  bzr send -o ./patch-amp-2011-03-03

implementing the required UUID functionalities.

Cheers,

Albert

2011/2/21 Jose E. Marchesi <address@hidden>:
>
> Hi Albert.
>
>    Regarding this, I have the linkage with Tso's libuuid almost done in
>    base/pdf-types-uuid.[ch].
>
> Great :)
>
>    However, Tso's libuuid does not provide generation of name-based
>    UUIDs, as required in doc/gnupdf.texi; it provides time-based and
>    random-based generation only. So, my question is: is the name-based
>    generation a must? If it is, I could implement it in libuuid and then
>    come back to libgnupdf to complete the linkage. If it is not, this
>    task is almost done :)
>
> We can live without the name-based UUIDs.  We will be using time-based
> UUIDs most the time, I guess.
>
> Please send your branch with bzr send when you feel it is ready for
> review.
>
>    By the way, I'm feeling curious about the UUID module: where is it
>    going to be used?
>
> We will be using it to generate IDs for the PDF documents, as well as in
> any occasion where we may need an unique identifier.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Jose E. Marchesi   address@hidden
> GNU Project         http://www.gnu.org
>

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