On Sep 7, 2005, at 10:04 AM, nathan wagner wrote:
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:45:17AM -0700, josh@agliodbs.com wrote:
I think the issue is portability. Remember that this type needs
to work on
Windows as well as all POSIX platforms and AIX.
I had forgotten about windows. I'll see to what extent the library
i'm
using is portable to windows.
You don't need to use a non-standard library for a lot of platforms,
you're pretty much guaranteed UUID support for (at least):
Linux/Darwin/Mac OS X: uuid_generate <uuid/uuid.h> (part of libc, at
least on Darwin)
FreeBSD: uuid_create <uuid.h> (again, libc)
Windows: UuidCreate <Rpc.h> (link to Rpcrt4.dll, IIRC)
Where a native UUID generate is not available, you can include some
implementation, but surely other platforms also include UUID
implementations.
I think Windows portability is a non-issue here.
-bob
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