On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:23:00PM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Well given that OSSP seems to be abandon ware (no activity since July
> 2008), it might be time to dump it in favor of something else.
Perhaps this would be a good time to bring up my uuid code again. I've
got a module for uuid s
On Sep 10, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Yeah, maybe. It doesn't even seem to be the "standard" implementation
>> on Linux or Mac. A bit of research says that Theodore Ts'o's libuuid
>> is what comes native with the OS on those platforms. No idea whether
>> the functionality is
On Sep 10, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Well given that OSSP seems to be abandon ware (no activity since July
>> 2008), it might be time to dump it in favor of something else.
>
> Are there any outstanding issues that would require an update?
Many. Look at all the issues with th
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 20:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" writes:
> > Well given that OSSP seems to be abandon ware (no activity since July
> > 2008), it might be time to dump it in favor of something else.
>
> Yeah, maybe. It doesn't even seem to be the "standard" implementation
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 16:23 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Well given that OSSP seems to be abandon ware (no activity since July
> 2008), it might be time to dump it in favor of something else.
Are there any outstanding issues that would require an update?
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"David E. Wheeler" writes:
> Well given that OSSP seems to be abandon ware (no activity since July 2008),
> it might be time to dump it in favor of something else.
Yeah, maybe. It doesn't even seem to be the "standard" implementation
on Linux or Mac. A bit of research says that Theodore Ts'o's
On Sep 10, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> The long and the short of it is that the OSSP guys need to fix their
> code. I'm not excited about kluges like
>
>> +#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
>
> which might band-aid around their mistake, but at what price? We have
> no idea what side-effects that
"David E. Wheeler" writes:
> I ran into an issue building 9.2 with the OSSP UUID module today. A bit of
> Googling and I found that the MacPorts guys ran into the same issue a few
> weeks ago. Their discussion:
The long and the short of it is that the OSSP guys need to fix their
code. I'm not
