A Squeak Packaging Proposal (Re: Is this list a chat or a lis
t REALLY ?)
Torsten.Bergmann at phaidros.com
Torsten.Bergmann at phaidros.com
Thu Aug 9 21:14:38 UTC 2001
Ned Konz wrote:
> All packages will have a globally unique id (generated from the
> current millisecond time plus a random number plus the authors initials)
> so they can be uniquely identitfied. ...
There are better solutions for globally unique id's. They should be
unique in time and space and there is already a solution for this:
GUID's used in Win32 systems. The algorithm takes the MAC address of the
network card, the time and a random number to build a 128-bit value.
That's not a windows only solution: they are defined in Open Group's DCE
standard.
Have alook at:
http://www.searchlores.org/fiatlu/GUIDnumber.html
Torsten
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