[Zope-CMF] Re: cmfuid

[Tres Seaver]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>> By the way: It would be cool if someone could implement 
>>> <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uuid-urn-03.txt> 
>>> (hint, hint!). Actually I think this should be a python lib ...
>>
>>
>> I have the beginnings of such a thing at
>> http://www.plope.com/software/uuidgen/view .  Not really, because it
>> doesn't follow the string formatting rules of the spec and it only does
>> "Version 4" UUIDs (without a version bit set) but I guess it's a start.
> 
> 
> Would it be unreasonable to move the UUID-generating bit into CMFUid and 
> replace the simple counter with it?

Only if it is an option, and not the default.  People have real use 
cases for the UIDs for which the UUID mangling is unwanted conceptual 
overhead (e.g., permalinks).

Tres.
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