On Tuesday 19 November 2002 07:01 pm, Daniel Joyce wrote:
> > My thinking exactly.
> >
> > My "corollary" thought is: just why does SqueakMap even need a
> > "Universally Unique ID", anyway?
> >
> > Isn't "locally unique" (to the SqueakMap registration server)
> > good enough?

No, because there may be more than one server. And packages may be 
registered to any of a number of servers.

> Why not let the server set UUIDs? That way, the server can
> guarantee uniqueness.

The server *is* setting UUIDs. Unfortunately, it was doing so without 
managing to make them unique.

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