On Mar 7, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On maandag 7 maart 2011, Phil Longstaff wrote: >> Can the qof guid library be replaced by libuuid on linux? >> >> Phil >> --------- >> I used to be a hypochondriac AND a kleptomaniac. So I took something for >> it. >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Phil Longstaff <plongst...@rogers.com> >> To: Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> >> Cc: Gnucash Devel <gnucash-de...@lists.gnucash.org> >> Sent: Mon, March 7, 2011 2:34:15 PM >> Subject: Re: WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got xxxx bytes. The >> identifiers might not be very random. >> >> It seems to me that a guid is a guid. Can you just use the win32 function >> UuidCreate()? >> >> Phil >> --------- >> I used to be a hypochondriac AND a kleptomaniac. So I took something for >> it. >> > Those seem good proposals to me. The only (smallish) problem I see is that > the > guids generated by libuuid and UuidCreate have a slightly different format > than what we use now. So we'd still have to wrap these libraries to output > guids in the format we are using so far. But that seems to be a small issue.
That's the string value. We should just get the uint-128 and shove it into the Qof structure and let Qof handle formatting it. For completeness, the Quartz function is CFUUIDCreate(); it returns an opaque CFUUID object, and you retrieve the value as a struct of 16 uint8s with CFUUIDGetBytes(). Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
