Hi
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:06 PM, אנטולי קרסנר <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does Gnome have any guidelines or recommendations related to URIs and > UUIDs? > > I'm writing a desktop app which stores data as RDF, and I want to give > URIs to all RDF resources. > > For the resources the application defines, I assume a good choice is to > use a URL, but that's pointless because I don't have any website to > point to. And still, I need some format. I can make my own, but before > that I'd like to know if Gnome has any guidelines for consistency. > Not a particular one that I know (if this is related to tracker, you should ask on their ML for help) For user-defined resources, I can't use a URI which reveals any > information, because some of the user data is private. So I decided to > use UUIDs, but there are two UUID libraries (one used by Linux and the > other provided by OSSP, with C++ binding) and 5 versions of UUID. So > again, I'd like to know if there are any guidelines. > Useful UUIDs from RFC 4122 are either kind of random numbers (version 4) or some digest (version 3 or 5). Unless you know you want a digest, you can just use version 4. I have proposed the following patch in glib, which you can learn from, copy or adapt to your needs: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639078
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