Jonathan Shore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Simple Process to Get CIDs
> -------------------------
> A month or two ago we were looking to create an XPCOM interface but
> couldn't find documentation anywhere as to how to get the unique class
> ids. Someone posted that one can get them on IRC. It's been over 8
> years since I last used IRC and am still unclear as to where one gets
> them. I assume there is a bot running which provides these?
>
> There should be a registry and a simple perl or better yet web based
> query page to get CIDs.
>
As Rick P pointed out, there are utils to do this on Windows that come
with MS Dev Studio. Alternately, uuidgen is pre-installed on most linux
distributions as part of the e2fstools package. And yes, there are
often bots in #mozilla that will generate uuids, mozbot is one such
bot (which happens to be dead at the moment, but hopefully will return
soon).
The simple C code that mozbot uses to generate UUIDs can be checked
out from the cvs repository; it lives under
mozilla/webtools/mozbot/uuidgen.
Dan
